The Temple Of God

I appreciate having you out with us. Glad to have the several young folks that's setting over here on the right with us, this family here. I know some of them; some of them I don't know. But I'm sure these must be Sister Harper's relatives. Is it? I see. Are they local. From Macon? Oh, from Lakeland, Florida. Okay. I know my wife said there was some that had come up, but I didn't know there was this many of them. Give these folks a hand, can you? All right. We've got Junior here tonight. Junior, he was talking with me today and he decided that he was going to be with us tonight, and I don't know whether his wife and little ones are here or not. Are they? I haven't spotted them yet, I don't guess, unless it was back here in the back. Oh, yeah. I thought maybe this was them on the back seat here back here. And also I see Eugene that has decided to come back home. I think we'd better give Eugene and them a hand. All right. While we were out in California we met__ I really didn't get to meet her, but there was a girl there that I picked up her spirit and I could tell that the girl was really concerned about us. And I couldn't tell just what it was, because I going in and out, but later I come to realize that the reason she was taking such notice she was the girl that you had spoke of that had come to our meeting. Her and some man and a little one was there at the meeting. And I found out later that she really wanted to get to see us, and I think maybe David's wife might have called her and talked with her, because we left without ministering. We were suppose to minister for them on Sunday night and I didn't feel lead to, so I left. I think after that David Paul's companion called them. We're glad to have you. If I happen to look and not notice you it's not because we don't want you here. We're glad to have you here. We appreciate everyone of you coming. I'm glad to know that Micah and the family is back and also David Clyde and the family is back. I don't think Brother Ron is back yet, but he will be back shortly. We talked to him while we were out there. People got a lot of your literature out there and they were really concerned, and really wanted us to minister on Sunday night, but I just didn't feel to do it. There was something about it that I didn't feel to do it, and I didn't do it. Maybe you think I'm strange, and I really am not. The Bible said God will have a people that are peculiar, and that of good works, but I just didn't feel to do it. All right. The book of Joel, if you've got your Bibles let's turn over to chapter one. It's in the thirteenth verse. (Reads through the first half of chapter 2, verse 14.) All right. Joel, sometimes we wonder about the words of Joel as to who Joel is and what Joel has to say about the situation. Whereas, it's very obvious that Joel gives his expression here as to the coming of the day of the Lord. And not only does he give it, but in other passages of Joel he is the one that said, God shall pour out of His spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams. And in that day he said, I will pour out of my spirit upon my handmaidens and they shall prophesy. So then, we are living in a time when the prophesies of Joel are being made manifest. Joel is a great prophet. There's not a whole lot said about Joel as to his prophesy other than these few things, but they hit their mark just perfect, and his prophesy is involved in the early church as to the reference of the apostolic leaders. So then, the day is at hand. The day of the Lord is a terrible day, a day of darkness, and it's a day when people will tremble when all of a sudden the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in heaven. A lot of times we read to you from the book of Revelation as to what it speaks of concerning the coming of the Lord and how that the sign of the Son of Man will suddenly appear in heaven right in the midst of all the busy things that people are doing, and right in the midst of all the people, and all over the world the sign of the Son of Man shall be seen. It will not just come up there and go away like that. It will appear in the heavens and there it shall be. It shall remain there while people look. And while they are looking and while they are trembling, and while they're torn all to pieces within their minds and spirits the Bible teaches that the rich man will begin to throw their money to the bats and cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth upon the Throne from the judgment of God, for the Bible said, as to the book of Revelation, For the day, the great day, even the great day of His wrath has come, and who shall be able to stand. So then, we realize that the Son of Man appearing in the heaven is going to be a terrible, terrible moment for them that are not ready to meet God. And you know there is one thing we need to consider. A lot of times we feel like, Well, we're ready Brother Pike. But I tell you, when you really think about the Son of Man appearing in the heavens, and you being in condition to meet Him it'll make you do a lot of thinking. And you'll begin to wonder whether or not you are ready to meet Him, because when the Son of Man appears, or the sign of the Son of Man appears all of the world is going to quake before Him. And that terrible, great, mighty moment, I think of it a lot of time. I live every day of my life as to the best of my ability, and the best of my knowledge, I live it for that one day. I said this to the congregation numbers of times, every day of my life, every moment of my life, every hour of my life, all through the night I live it for one moment, that is the appearing of the sign of the Son of Man when He appears in heaven, or when I am called in account to give to God an account of the deeds that I've done as I tabernacled as a spiritual being within this body of a human being, and of the time when I will stand in the judgment, and have to give an account to God for every word that I've spoken, every thought that I've thought, for the Bible said in that day God shall judge the secrets of men's hearts by this gospel. So then, I live my life for that moment. I don't care about other things. Whatever takes place that's great. I want to do a lot of things. I try to do a lot of things. I'm busy, and I'm involved in a lot of things, but the root of all of my endeavors and my desire, even in my discussion, is always Christ. Christ is the root of the desire of my heart. So then, when I have a conversation it doesn't matter what my conversation is I'm going back to Christ, or I'm going to lead the conversation to Christ, or whatever your conversation is I'm going to lead it back to Christ, or I'm going to leave you just as soon as I can get my thoughts together to leave you, because I'm not interested in what you've got to say. Everything that you say, as to a lot of etcetera, it's gone and that's all there is to it. It's just a lot of noise and there's nothing to it. But words spoken, those words that are right, words of wisdom and knowledge and light that are fitly spoken they are like apples of gold in pitchers of silver. And these are the great wonderful words of God, even the words of life as to Christ, the Word. He is called the Desire of Ages. Everybody is looking for Him; everybody is desiring Him because with all the efforts of medical science and industrial efforts in the world and all the achievements, as to riches and wisdom and splendor and glory and magnificence of the earth it's really nothing, but beyond that there is one thing that we need and that's life. Life is always receding. If you are young be glad. Enjoy yourself. Enjoy your youth in the right way, because you have to remember some day it's going to end, and some day you are going to be brought into the judgment for everything you think, everything you say, everything you do. So then, the Bible said remember thy creator in the days of thy youth when the evil days draw not nigh, when you look and say, I have no pleasure in my sowing for the reaping is not the kind of harvest that I want to reap. So then, we have to remember that what Joel is speaking of, as to the coming of the Lord, that it's a dreadful, dreadful time. Like we set in the services tonight, or over in the late evening here, and we realize it's not too comfortable in here. Though we have air-conditioning going, yet this is an exceedingly hot time of the year. So we realize it's not too comfortable. But, folks, this is like sitting under the finest kind of air-conditioning in the world as compared with a little bit of the breath of hell. Hell is going to be so horrible, and so hot and so bad, and the Bible speaks of the greater damnation for people that have come to the knowledge of God that have trampled under their feet the blood of the Lamb, and the Word of God, and done their own selfish, gullible thing, as to the desire. You know, I made the statement just recently, a person that knows about God, understands God, and just walks off and leaves God, they don't have no right to the Word of God. They are un-deserving of the things of God. They don't need the things of God, because they are not fit for the things of God. Anybody that would know the things of God, understand the things of God, walk off and leave the things of God, they are not fit for the Kingdom of God. The Bible said any man having put his hands to the plow, looking back into Egypt, he is not fit for the Kingdom of God. And that is true. He isn't. See? Though they turn back into Egypt in their heart God condemns it and says it's wrong. He said, I would that you were hot or cold. Because if a person is cold, and they don't know anything about God, and they are going out there into the world and doing those things, then God can have compassion on them, because He understands their situation. And if a person is on fire for God, and going on with God, and doing the things of God He understand, because that person can have eternal life, and they can come to great wonderful understanding in God with life, and that more abundant, as to filled up and overflowing. But folks, when you come to know God, and you know the truth, and you know what's right, and you don't want to do what is right, and you have no respect for what is right, have no respect for God, the blood that flowed out from His veins, no respect for His sufferings, no respect for the Heavenly Father, no respect for the things that are godly and good, and upright, you are not fit for the Kingdom of God. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right. The Bible said you come to the knowledge of the truth and then you fall away, turn away and do your own thing where are you going to? for there is no other place to go. Jesus alone has the words of eternal life, and if you go your own way to do your own things then where can you go? Because the Bible says there is now no other place that you can find salvation. And there is only a fearful looking forward to of the fiery indignation of God that shall devour His adversaries, because you've come to know and you won't do, and it kindles God's wrath against you. Then if you try to go a religious way and won't go on with God, and yet you know the right way then God calls you vomit. He says I'll spew you out of My mouth and all of my tables are filled with vomit. The last day of the Laodicean, lukewarm age, as to be religious and not serve God is a cursed age. It's the worst age. As a matter-of-fact, it's the one thing that will bring the end of the world. It's like I was telling somebody today. We were having a little conversation, and we were talking about believing. I made the statement, I said, A person cannot believe. You can say that you believe all you want believe, but a person cannot believe as to having faith. That's impossible. If you are not serving God and doing the things that please God, as to confident your conscience, to have confidence in God, you don't have faith. You are making believe. You are playing some kind of a game, and it's a deadly game at that, because you are lying against the truth, and the Bible said, Thou shalt not lie. And especially lie not, the Bible said, against the truth. And when you tell yourself that you are a believer and you tell yourself that you are a Son of God, like somebody came and made a confession to me the other day. I was talking to my wife about some of the people. They get out there and they still think the are sons of God and daughters of God. They know they are gullibly wrapped up in the (I almost said it.) of the world, you know, and those kind of things and they are out there in the mire, and whatever, you know. And they say, I'm still a Son of God. I know I'm doing this, but bless God, I'm a son of God. You know that you are a liar. A son of God ain't never done nothing like that. A son of God will never do nothing like that. A son of God doesn't have a nature like that. That's a pig nature and a dog nature. You don't have a son of God nature. How can you lie against God. That's the thing that God killed Ananias and Sapphira for, was for lying to the truth. That is, the spirit of truth. So then, you are not right with God. You are not a son of God. You are not a daughter of God. Somebody said, But, Brother Pike, doesn't the Bible say that a good man will fall seven times and get back up? Would you call a man with a pig nature a good man? A man with a dog nature, a woman with a dog nature that's eating mire, and lapping vomit, or eating slop, would you call that a good man? Of course a good man will fall and get back up, but when a man is drunk, and he's just drunk and drinking more, and still drunk, even drunker, and stumbling everywhere is that a good man? Of course not. He's a drunk. He's not a good man. A good man wouldn't be a drunk. There's a difference between a good man and a drunk. And if you are drunk off of the cares of life, and you are just stumbling around and going right on, eating with the pigs, lapping the vomit and whatever, are you a good man? No. You are not. Jesus said swine and dogs. They are out there. If a man stumbles when he's trying his best to do right, and he didn't mean to do that, and it just got dark, or something got in his way and he didn't mean to do that, that man can be a good man. He has no hearts desire toward that. He had no concern toward that. He certainly wasn't looking for that, and that got in his way and it was no desire, and even when he stumbles there still isn't anything on the inside toward that. He is a good man and he'll get back up, and if he stumbles again he'll get back up, because Christ is on the inside of him, and Christ is his motivation of life, and Christ is his safety, and Christ has his spirit sealed, and nothing can touch him. If you have a good wife and the wife is stolen away and ravished, because she has been abused as by force, and somebody has molested her, should you then throw her away and say she is a harlot? No. You couldn't do that, because you would be altogether out of your mind. You wouldn't have good reasoning. But if you had a wife and she knows what's right and she went out there and threw herself to the four winds, as to do these things, it a gullible desire of her passions. She is a harlot. See? And you cannot even live with her. If you are married to her then God won't you, because the Bible said if you be joined to a harlot then are you a harlot. You are one flesh. So, he won't even have you. That severs the ties between you and your companion. And so it is with God. You cannot do those things. If you are a harlot in your spirit, or you are a whoremonger in your spirit, and you are lusting after the opposite sex, as to think upon them in anything degenerate way, as to desire them, then you are a whoremonger and a harlot, and you have committed adultery. Already you've defiled the temple with that evil devil that you let into your spirit, and God will destroy your body because He cannot dwell in it. That automatically severs the ties, and even though you can't act, as to put away your wife because you don't know unless you've got discernment, but God has so made it that when this happens a person cannot shake it out of their spirit. They can go on and go on and go on, but as David, when David stood on the house top he looked out here on the house top, he saw this thing that he shouldn't have been looking at and it got into his heart and from that time he never rested until he committed adultery, committed murder, and stole a man's wife. And though he was suppose to be a man after God's own heart. See? A God has so made it that when this gets in you it's going to make manifest. When a spirit of cancer gets in you it's going to make manifest. Give it enough time and that spirit of cancer is going to begin to show. It's going to make itself manifest. When this rottenness of deterioration, as to spiritual corruption, gets into your thoughts and into your desires, it may be a year, it may be five years, it may be ten years, but it's going to make manifest, and do exactly what the Bible says it will do. So then, good water and bitter water can't come forth from the same fountain. It's just like I was telling my companion today about somebody I spoke to you about that's been numbered with us, and I said, If they had been of us they no doubt would have continued with us, but they went out from us that it might be made manifest they were not of us. As to the companion that came to me yesterday. said and it happened accordingly. Just as we said it would happen it happened accordingly as a person has defiled themselves and came and made their confession. See? And that is the way it is, folks. If you are right in your heart you are right. If you are godly in your heart you are godly. If you are ungodly in your heart then you are ungodly, and the Bible said let the just be just still, and let the unclean be unclean still. And the Bible said, as to the predestination of God, God having looked down through the telescope of time, seeing these that would conform to the way of God that he has predestinated him unto life in Christ Jesus, the fullness of the way of God, as to His satisfaction unto righteousness in His way. God has said it so that when the minister comes to preach to them that these people will repent of their sins and find eternal life, because they are the elect of God. Now. If you see me reaching up like that it's because I got a hold of a hair. A hair, I don't know, it was on the glass here somewhere. But anyway, we are children of God. We are holy. We are clean. We are godly. We have the Holy Ghost. We are filled with the Holy Ghost. We have the Holy Ghost. You know, if we go to pray for the sick and we say, Father, in the name of Jesus. I command this devil to leave. You know, we not suppose to say, Well, I don't know, or wander, or half hearted, or we don't know whether it's going to happen or not, or we don't know whether God will keep His Word or not, or we don't whether we're good enough or not. You know, you're not going to get any results from God. You're not going to get any healing. You're not going to get any deliverance. You're not going to get anything, because you are nothing, as to faith. You are half-hearted. You are weak in faith. You're wishy-washy. You don't even know what the Word is. You don't know what your foundation of believing is so you are not going to get anything. See? As to the Bible, ask in faith nothing wavering. If this Word says something, whether it's as to holiness, whether it's as to your way of life, or as to healing somebody, or as to a gift, or whatever, then you've got to believe it with all of your heart, with all of your might, with all of your soul, with all of your strength. And there's one thing that we need to know. If you pray for somebody, and you say, God, by my power I make this man well. I make this woman well. Then right there you have run off of the deep end, as far as everybody is concerned, but nevertheless, the Bible said that which is mine it's lawful for me to do what I will with it. And the Bible said, And I give unto you power. It's yours. Over all the powers of the enemy. And the Bible said, And you have received the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost is yours for you have received the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is your power. It is the power that God gave you. It is the strength that God you. That's why he said you go heal the sick. You cast out devils. You do whatever you will in my name. You speak the word and that's the way it will be, because that's what I said about it. See? As to the Word, we can trust the Word. We can trust the Word all the way, folks. All the way. Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, if I said, I cast this devil out in my power, then and I was trying to do that in my power would the devil come out? He absolutely would not. He'd say as Paul I know, and Jesus I know, but who are you? Someone would say, Well, wasn't that what you said? No. That wasn't what I said. You misinterpreted what I said. That's why the Bible said give the more earnest heed to the things that you've heard lest at any time you should let them slip. When I said my power, whereas, the Bible says, my power, my gift. I give unto you power. It's your power. I gave it unto you. If you give me something then it's mine. If I tried to do this by my power, as to never having been born again and trying to do it of my power and my ability I would be a fraud, and I'd be a well without any water boasting myself of something I didn't have, and nothing wouldn't happen. See? But when it is the Holy Ghost, you're doing something in the name of Jesus, how can it be your personal ability? How can it be your personal power? Because you are doing it in the name of Jesus it proves there's nothing personal about it. And because you are doing it in the name of Jesus you say, I come to you in the name of Jesus, it is a positive proof if you have been born again that you are dead, and you are not there, and your personality is not there, and your desire is not there, and even to your mind, every thought coming into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ. It is not you, but doing all things as in the person of Jesus Christ you are standing there as the Lord God Himself, and you are commanding and you are doing those things as the body of the Lord Jesus, and all power is given to you in heaven and in earth. Jesus said, Father, I thank Thee because Thou hast given me power over all flesh. Someone would say, Jesus' power over all flesh. That's right. Jesus' power over all flesh. Then who are we? Who are we? Someone would say, Well, I know you. I know your father, you mother. The Bible said that you are not to know anyone after the flesh. You are seeing lying vanities, having strong delusions. That is the body of the Lord Jesus, members in particular, and the man is not there. He's dead, and he's buried. The man that died a few years ago, whoever he was, and you attended his funeral, and he's buried out in the graveyard, how many times has he come to church? Let's give the Lord a hand. How many times have you seen him around since then? We are not grave robbers. See? It's the body of the Lord Jesus. This is not a figment of imagination. This is not a figment of speech; this is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, members in particular. How do you think we overcome and set down in the Throne with Jesus unless we're the members of His body that is sitting on the Throne? My hand sits down in the chair I sit down in. And when the body of the Lord Jesus overcomes to set down in the Throne with the Father it is because God is a spirit and that spirit is interwoven with Him. And in that Christ is a spirit, a quickening spirit interwoven with us, that we be the members of His body, Heaven is His Throne, and when we overcome the man child immediately being caught up into heaven, so then we dwell in heaven. As we were also saying yesterday and today, having a little talk there on some things, when we say, And as unto the time appointed of the Father, or coming to the Bar Mitzvah, what are we saying? We're speaking of CAlvary. The Bible said that all of our lives we were subject to bondage by fear of death, but the day of release is here. For God looked down from heaven, heard the groaning of the prisoners, loosed them that were appointed unto death accepting them in a day that was accepted of God as to succor them. Or that is to say Calvary. So then, when Paul comes preaching he says, All of my preaching is yea. There is no yea and nay in my preaching. He said all of my preaching is yea, for all the promises in God are yea and amen. Not to be questioned, but whatever they say that's what it is. See? And when Paul speaks of the Jews he said, And the law being a school master to bring us unto grace. Now that we've come unto grace do we need the school master anymore? Isn't the law fulfilled by Jesus, folded up and laid away. And now we've come to the Bar Mitzvah. And if we've come to the Bar Mitzvah we've entered into heaven. We are they that dwell in heaven, and the child then is caught up into heaven. And we are the child as to members of His body. If that be true, that He said, Rejoice forever more, ye that dwell in heaven, and we are they that dwell in heaven. So then, if we're in heaven with God, hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received, so then we are the child. We're caught up into heaven. Then what has come? Now has come power, for the accuser of the brethren has been cast out. And as I said so many times, Calvary is the end of the world. Calvary is the fullness of time. Calvary is when Lucifer is cast out. And it's recorded in Revelation 7;10 as the Jews having to come back to the recognition of this in the middle of the week, Daniel"s last week. So then, we know that the accuser of the brethren is cast out for Jesus said, I have destroyed him that hath power over death. I beheld him as lightning fall from heaven. And He said, I've destroyed the works of the devil. I was manifested to destroy the works of the devil, and behold I give unto you power. For the Bible said, Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, as to the original rendering when it's come upon you. So then you have power. The man child is caught up. Lucifer went out, and you have power. What kind of power? Power over all the powers of the enemy as in the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy. Galatians refers back to it. And you are not under the curse anymore, for Jesus became a curse for us. And the curse is forever gone of sickness, of death, of sorrow, of fear, of problems and heartaches, and worry, despondency, and whatever it might be, it's gone eternally and forever, and we are free. And the Bible said, Therefore, continue steadfastly in this wonderful freedom that God has given (Begin tape one, side two.)....in your liberty. Hold fast to your liberty by faith in the promises of God. In that God has in His Word given us the promise, as to saying I have given unto you all things that pertain unto life, all things that pertain unto life. Not some things, but all things that pertain unto life. Whether it's in this temporal life, or the world of life to come. All right. So then, we know that the accuser has been cast out. We know that we've been caught up. We know that we are without spot wrinkle or blemish. He that is born of God keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. And the Bible said, He that is born of God cannot sin. He is sealed within the great wonderfulness of God's glory, and he is without fault before the Throne because it was said, I find no fault in this just man. And that just man being the bodily members, as to the Church, then no one can lay anything to your charge. And there is nothing as to trials, problems, whatever it might be that can separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. I say this again. God's love is so great for Christ. He's the love I now have. He made me the Christ. He made me the body of Christ. He made me the Holy Ghost manifested in the flesh. This is Holy Ghost flesh by faith in God. This is Holy Ghost mind. This is Holy Ghost heart. This is Holy Ghost soul. See? And the life of Christ, even the Holy Ghost, the spirit of Christ is being made manifest in my mortal genes, as to this life of Christ that it might radiate with the tranquility of God that all of the world may walk in the light of this wonderful gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then, knowing this then we have to declare as it is with Christ that my Father and I are one. Because God hath made Him one with His Father He said, Father, make these one even as we are one. So then, in Christ we are one with our Heavenly FAther. We've been saved with Christ, and whatever He is so are we in Him. And Jesus said, No man taketh My life from Me. I lay it down of my own accord. This commandment I have of My Father. I can lay it down or I can take it up. So then, I have the same thing that He had. No man taketh my life from me. Someone would say, Oh, but Brother Pike, no man taketh my life from me. In the first place no man can take my life, because I've already passed from death unto life, and nothing can even touch me, not even Satan. And the love of God is so strong, so strong that God will never let anything come between Him and His Son Jesus. And I am His Son Jesus. Let's give the Lord a hand. Not me living but the Son Jesus. I am buried with Him in baptism and it's not I living but Christ living within me, and the life I now live by the Son of God, and I'm bone of His bore and flesh of His flesh. Somebody say, Hallelujah. All right. So then, we know that we have the love so strong that nothing can ever get between us and God. Folks, what kind of faith should we have? If faith works by love what kind of faith should we have? With that kind of love there ought not to be anything that can shake us at any time. Our faith ought to be steadfast in God. We ought to be of such that we would say, Lord, there is nothing that can touch my body. Somebody says, I've got a pain. I've got a problem. Folks, are you going to doubt the Word of God? Why would you insult God? If Brother John Jameson told me something, Brother Frank Taylor told me something, or I told them something they wouldn't like it if I questioned their integrity, and if I tell somebody something and I perceive that they don't believe it that's an insult to me, because I try to tell the truth. Am I then going to insult God by questioning what God Almighty said? And say that He's God, and He's my God and then question the words of God, as to what God has said as to all of His wonderful promises. You know what we need to do is acquaint ourselves with the wonderful promises of God, be steadfast in those things and look at ourself and say, Now wait a minute. What kind of problem have I supposedly got? And then if something says, Cancer. Say, That can't be. No way it could be. Oh, but the doctor says it is. I don't care is he did say it; there's no way it could be. He's having strong delusions. He's hallucinating, because I am the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular, having borne my sickness in His body on the Tree, having took my sins away. And having taken sickness out of the midst of me, and saying that nothing can touch me, and that He's the God that healed me, and forgive all of my iniquities. And He's healed all of my diseases and by His stripes I've been healed at Calvary. And now His Word has come and healed me, even His Word at Calvary to suffer for me, as the body of Jesus Christ. And now His Word, as to His Spirit of that body on the inside of my heart, how could any darkness get near a light unless a light has gone out. Can darkness get near that bulb as long as that bulb has light within it, as long as the filament is all right, as long as the current is coming, as long as the power is in there, as long as the light is radiating from that bulb can any darkness get near that bulb? Of course not. See? It's only when the bulb goes out, it's only when the power goes off. If we've got power that will never go off, because I'll never leave you nor forsake you, He said. See? And if we have the power of God on the inside, which is the Holy Ghost, and this light is made manifest in our body, and if wisdom maketh a man's face to shine, how can the devil afflict your body? How can the devil get to you? See? It's only through your unbelief that you hinder this light and stop this light from radiating within your body. It's only the smut on the globe, as I said, in the old chimney of the lamp. That same thing happens to a bulb. If something happens to the light and it begins to effect the filament, then it gets smokey. It gets dark on the inside. See? There is a problem. There is a hindrance. But, beloved friend, as you walk with God and you stay clean in your life and you do the best that you can and that light is radiating from within you, the Christ of heaven, there is no disease that can live in your body. It doesn't matter if you have had cancer, at the very faith of God and the confidence of God that you are the Holy Ghost body, the Holy Ghost flesh, you are God flesh, you are Word flesh, you are spirit flesh, the Spirit of life flesh. See? You are, as to your natural being, your own spirit flesh as to your human spirit flesh. And when that spirit leaves that flesh doesn't do anything. So the life of that flesh is you on the inside, and when you, on the inside, become interwoven with Christ, then it is Christ flesh. It is bone of His bone and flesh of flesh of His flesh. And so then, the disease cannot even get near you. The Bible said it shall not come nigh your dwelling. Infirm spirits, devils, demons, whatever, you have got to believe the Word. You've got to accept the Word. You've got to be positive in the Word. You've got to believe the Word. Stand on the Word. Don't be half-hearted in the Word. All right. The Bible said the Word of God is the power of God. It's the power of God unto salvation. It is the power of God without alteration. Not one good promise of His Word has ever failed. The Bible said He will hasten to perform His Word. He will watch over it to perform it. It will accomplish that that He pleases and prosper in that whereunto He has sent it. He will not alter it, or change it. It's the same unto a thousand generations. So, what I say unto one I say unto all. I forgive all of your iniquities. I heal all of your diseases without respect of person. The Savior of all men to the extent that they that are in the rain out yonder can get healed as well as they that have Christ on the inside. But if our healing is to last, if we're to have the blessings of God then we're going to have to be positive. We can't be half-hearted. We can't approach it with fear and wondering and dread and half__ You know, a person will have a bad disease, and they think, Well, I want to trust God, and I want to believe God, but I'm afraid to do that. I'm afraid I'll die. Well, if you don't trust Him, you know, then you're going to die. If you don't trust Him you're still going to die. And if it's cancer it's going to kill you, you're still going to die. It just makes good sense to make at least an effort in the right direction that you might live, because you are going to die anyway. Like the lepers that set at the gate. They said, Why sit we here until we die? At least we make an effort. If they kill us they just kill us, as to the army of the enemy. See? So then, why not trust the Lord? You know, and I said this the other day at men's meeting, and I say it so often to you. A lot of times somebody says, Well, I'm sick for the glory of God. Folks, there ain't never been nobody sick for the glory of God. Ain't never nobody suffered for the glory of God. See? Jesus, the Lord, took your sins and what was the glory of God in that was that He was eradicating the sickness. He was doing away with the sickness. He was becoming the champion of God over sickness, and over sin, and defeating the enemy. That was for the glory of God. See? The grief of His Son having to go through that, that was no pleasure to God whatsoever. God does not want you to lose the members of your body, as to your hearing, and your sight, or whatever it might be. Somebody says, But I know good folks, Brother Pike, that has lost them. I don't care if you do. If you lose them, I lose them, who ever loses them, God doesn't want them lost. God does not, He is not the author of confusion. He does not feel that way about it. He wants you to have your members. He wants you to live. It's not even His will that the wicked perish, but all should come to repentance, and have everlasting life. He doesn't want those things to happen to you. There is no suffering, as to sickness, for the glory of God. Sickness is of the devil. Sickness came from Satan. Sickness started in the Garden when the people were healthy and it has preyed on them and eaten them up, and their iniquities have separated between them and their God, because it has killed their faith in God, and because of that they cannot believe, losing their faith, the shield of faith, and the devil has come in on them like a flood. All right. So then, we know that of a surety that the day of the Lord is coming, but we are children of God, and we are ready to meet God. Not only that, but even in these days before the Lord comes we have the Holy Ghost on the inside. We are Holy Ghost flesh. We are Holy Ghost images. We are the temple of the living God. The Lord is radiating through us and sickness can't live in our body. Germs can't live in our body. Powers of evil can't live in our body. Infirm spirits can't stay in our spirit. Even when the infirm spirit is gone then life, abundantly, filled up, overflowing. That is running through your veins, and through your blood genetics, and God is stimulating your faith that you be God's man, you be God's woman, and that a healthy species of life, with strength until your day is ended. Not part strength, age has nothing to do with it. I will fulfill the number of your years. I will bring you to your time, as to a full shock, not as a cripple, not as a sickly person, but as to a harvest that the worms have not touched. To gather you into the garners for my good, as to a health crop. I will bless you. I will give you strength as your day. You strength shall be as your day. One day's strength, ten days strength, a hundred days strength, a hundred years strength, or if you live nine hundred years as it was with Methuselah, still strength. As nine hundred years with Noah, still plenty of strength. God isn't short of strength. Neither is the body inferior to Satan. It just takes faith in God. Someone would say, Well, they lived nine hundred years but, Brother Pike, you must have enough sense to know that you are not going to live nine hundred years. I got more than enough sense, if that's the way you judge it, because I'm going to live forever. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody say Hallelujah! The life they lived was like a junior. We're in this thing to live forever. We've passed from death unto life. We will never come into condemnation. No one can separate us from the love of God. Nothing can be laid to the charge of God's elect. We are elected to grace. We are made perfect, justified. The Bible said sanctified once and for all by the offering up of the body of Jesus at Calvary, and perfected forever, justified, and the Bible said glorified. If God be for us who can be against us. We are a finished product in God. We are complete in Christ Jesus, body, soul, and spirit. Paul said, I want to present you blameless, body, soul, and spirit. If he wants to present the body blameless he ought to present it also without disease, or without anything that Satan can conquer it with. Let's go on with God, and let's do something for God, and let's wake up. We're Gods. We are always God's as to belonging to Him. And we are Gods as to membership of His body to where Satan hath no power at all over us, because we have the Holy Ghost on the inside and He is just radiating, and the devils dare not get near Him. Somebody say Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God just can't get near the light. All right. Let's stand together and sing a little chorus. Somebody said, Well, the devil sure does give me a hard way, Brother Pike. Well, you are going to have to sharpen your wits in God. You're going to have strengthen your faith. Faith don't come by fasting. Faith don't come by praying. Faith come by believing what God said. I do the other things so that I can strengthen my faith, as Abraham was, strong in faith. Giving glory to God, being fully persuaded that what God had said that He was able also to perform. This is why I do what I do. I try to live a holy, overcoming life, not because that's going to save me, but because I can't do anything else because it's the nature of God within me. And it's presented itself according to the nature. And I bear fruits of holiness as unto God, and that way the end of it eternal life. I don't have the desire of the world in me, and the hunger and the thirst of the world in me. So then, I'm not trying to do anything. I am a Christian by grace. I am a child of God by grace. I am strong and healthy by grace. I am eternal by grace. I am secure by grace, and complete in Him by grace. Somebody say Hallelujah! That's why we have a right to rejoice. When you fall if you are born of grace you are a good man, because there's none good but God and you are the body of God. Get back up, keep on going. Don't let the devil condemn you. Don't cast your faith away; go right on. If you are playing the hypocrite then you are trying to believe when you know that you are not trying to live an overcoming life, and when you know that you are not true in your heart, as to a special effort toward God then be afraid, because the wrath of God is going to consume you with the brightness of His coming. Let's sing a little chorus together. Somebody said, Well I have a problem, Brother Pike. If you are speaking about fighting with the devil I don't know of anybody that don't. The Bible said there is continual warfare between the body and the soul, between the devil and the Lord. And you are wrestling against spiritual wickedness, as principalities. It's not God that has delayed His promise, nor altered his promise. Thine iniquities have separated between thee and thy God, and Calvary took away your iniquities and your sins and your sicknesses if you believe. And when you don't believe, as to week in faith, then your iniquities are back between you and your reward. You have to believe it away. God purifies the heart by faith, and you have to do the things that please God to confident that heart toward believing. So then, it's up to you. God hasn't delayed the promise. Somebody said, Well, I think it should work like that when I believe. He worked like that before you ever believe, before you was ever born into the world to believe. All these things were given to you in Christ before you ever came into the world. And the Bible said he heard before you ever called. See? But now that you are here, now that you are on the scene, as to enjoy these wonderful promises you must believe and to act upon these things. To prove your believing by what you set out to do as through your efforts. Faith without the actions behind it is dead. No works, no believing. Whatever your works are that's what you believe. Whatever you believe that's what you are. The child is known by his doings. It's made manifest as your efforts that proves your thinking and believing. As a man thinketh in his heart so he is. So then, what am I saying? I'm saying that you are wrestling. The devil is what holds up your promise as it was in the days of Daniel when the angles said, Daniel, we heard from the very first day you called and the answer was sent to you, but Satan, even the prince of Persia hindered us. Paul said, I would have come unto you, but Satan hindered me. You are a spiritual being on the inside that's wrestling with a spiritual being of Lucifer, and devils that are greater and mightier and more powerful than you, and your spirit will wrestle until you are tired and weary and bow down your head in despair unless you have Christ. As to Christ the inspiration of energizing has conquered all powers, as to spirits, being the father of Spirits God has control and has made manifest in His Son all judgment as to power over the flesh, or over spirits and the more of His Spirit you get, as being filled with the Spirit, the greater and mightier you are. The more of your word and understanding as to the angel that flew through the air and the light of that wonderful angelic being lightened all the earth. To let your light so shine as the wisdom that maketh a man's face shine so let it shine that men may see your good works, your health and your happiness and strength, your prosperity and blessing, and in seeing that they will want God. Another thing is to remember that supposing that worldly gain is godliness, that's wrong. Just because you are prospering, and whatever, that don't mean that you've got God. But it's a true fact that if you've got God you will prosper. All right. So we don't manipulate and get it by theft. We get it by faith. To get it another way, to climb up another way, religious another way, admiration another way, exalt yourself, then you will be cast out, you'll be abased, bound hand and feet, cast out into the darkness. But beloved friend, when you come through the door as to believing through the Word then you are sanctified, the filter cleanses you. And when you want something from God find the Word of God, remember what it says. Stand on it. Don't move. God is a rock. Don't move. The winds won't get it. God won't alter it; it will come to pass. See? Stand on it. It doesn't make any difference what it is, stand on it. Don't waver in your faith. Don't waver in your__ Don't doubt God's Word. Don't insult God by questioning the integrity of the only true and the living God. God's Word can't be questioned. See? And don't try to believe. Just try to keep from doubting. Don't try to believe. The believing will take care of itself. Just do your best not to question God's integrity, as to doubt, and everything will be all right. With the heart man believeth to confident the heart, then things happen. I'm saying this as a thought to leave with you. That it is Satan that hinders. Daniel held on until the answer came, because the answer came the first day he prayed. God has already given you the answer. Before you ever called it's in Christ Jesus. See? But you are wrestling against powers. Jacob wrestled all night long with the angel, and prevailed until the morning, and then he overcame the angel. And you have to wrestle with those angels, because those angels are not going to turn a loose of that body. They are not going to turn a loose of that body, because they are they are wondering through dry places seeking rest and they are tormented. And unless they can get into your body in the presence of this rain that's on the unjust then they are going to suffer. And they're not going to turn loose of that body. They are going to fight, and they are going to wrestle until finally they're going to see that you are going to stand steadfast on the Word of God, and then it starts tormenting them, and then they will flee. Draw nigh to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. All right. Let's sing a little chorus. (Sings I Love Him.) Sing that with me again now. The alters are open if you'd like to come. (Continues singing and sings Every Promise In The Book Is Mine.) Can you sing that now? After preaching to you tonight you ought to be able to sing that with a strong affirmation of heart, to desire without wavering, without doubting like Abraham giving praise to God, because He has healed you, giving praise to God because He has strengthened you and saved you, giving praise to God because He has prospered you in all of your ways and made all of your paths peace. (Continues singing.) Do you really believe that? Let's sing this song. (Sings Amazing Grace.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues singing.) Sing that with me. (Continues singing and sings Wear A Crown.) The Bible said to everyone that overcometh God will give unto him a crown of life, for Paul said, There is now laid up for me now a crown of life, and not only for me, but for everyone that loves him. At His coming they will receive a crown of life that fadeth not away. All right. Let's sing another little chorus or two and we'll let you go. (Sings Standing Somewhere In The Shadows and Supper Time.) Let's just life our hands and close our eyes. (Sings I will Praise Him.) One more time together. (Continues singing.) Can you lift your hands and close your eyes and praise the Lord? (Continues singing.) Praise the Lamb for sinners slain. To give Him glory all ye people. The Bible said His blood has washed away every stain. (Continues singing.) Once more together. (Continues singing.) While you are singing I'm going to ask Brother Bob from California, if he will, to come and dismiss us. And while Bob is coming, I remind you once again, the Bible said, Search yourselves, see if you be in the faith. (Begin tape two, side one.)....of God. Jesus said unless a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. He cannot even see the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is seen by revelation, as of the Spirit of God, and to see this wonderful Kingdom and to be a part of it you must be born again. If you don't have the Spirit of God today then I invite you to receive the Spirit of the Lord. Receive ye the Holy Ghost. You are going to need the Holy Ghost. In these days of temptations and problems only those that have the Holy Ghost will be able to endure and make it through. So then, if you don't have the Spirit of God now is the time to get it. (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