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There's a lot of things I would like to say. Of course tonight there were some things that I had on my heart that I really wanted to get into concerning some of the present happenings, and concerning the Scripture, but knowing that I am running late I probably won't attempt to get into them. I'll probably just read a little bit from chapter fifty-nine of the book of Isaiah and try to exhort you a little bit unless God really gets into it. Chapter fifty- nine. We have been running along a trail as to try to explain a few things. There are so many hundreds and thousands of things that God has given for this hour, and I've been trying to explain to some of the Brethren that coming down this way, the way God works the thing, He doesn't retrace His footsteps. As a rule, once it passes by, that's it. It will make its round and it will come and then it will go by and that's it. And if I come here tonight with a message, if this message doesn't take, in the sense that you are spiritual enough to cause God to speak, or hungry and thirsty enough to cause God to speak, then it goes on by and then I come tomorrow night it isn't the same message. I can't re-run it like a tape, and then, of course, you miss it unless you personally get it from God. Which if you do that's good and well with me. That's fine. But I'm just here to try to preach the gospel, you know, to help those that cannot get it. But if someone can get it on their own then I think that's wonderful. But in that I've been given the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, even as Paul__ It was given to Paul and, of course, a lot of people feel like, you know, that that would be impossible for us to have the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now they don't think it impossible for Paul to have it, and yet Paul was a man and I'm a man and you are people. And they think it's impossible to do anything supernaturally outstanding because I am a man. But, yet, the Bible said Elijah was a man of like passion the same as you and I, but yet he did the wonderful phenomenal things. And it was said when Jesus forgave sin, they said, Who can forgive sin? He's a man. But He said, that you may know that I have power to forgive sin that He started doing some healings, and they said, the Bible says they marvelled that such power had been given unto men. And sure enough God goes give these things unto men. And Jesus says, as My Father sent me so send I you, and whatever My Father has made known unto me I have also made known unto you. That's a lot of things. Have you ever considered that, that that is a lot of things? But, anyway, "The revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave unto him to show unto his servants things that must shortly come to pass, and he sent and signified them by his angels unto his servant John." And tonight my heart is literally filled up and overflowing with the revelation of Jesus Christ. All day long I feed off of it. All year long I feed off of it. And it's been that way for numbers and numbers of years, and it is so beautiful, and so wonderful. And then we see the things that are happening. We see the things that are going to happen for the Bible said the Holy Ghost will show you things to come. So the Holy Spirit shows us things that are going to happen. He blesses us. He whispers His wonderful peace to our soul. And He says, Be of good courage. Be not dismayed, I will uphold thee by the right hand of my righteousness. And then we realize that we are never going to die, that there is no way that we can die. We've already come beyond that. Some of you I know haven't come beyond that, but when we realize that we're never going to die, that it is utterly impossible for a child of God to die, then that makes you happy. And then you realize that here in your stride as life is always dimension from the cradle on. You know, the strange thing about this life, when you are born as a little one, from the minute you are born you start dying. And from there out you die, and you die, and you die until you are dead. But it was said unto Adam and Eve thou shalt not eat of the tree of knowledge. Thou shalt not partake of the tree of knowledge. Which goes back to what the writer said in the New Testament, lean not to thine own understanding. Go not after your own thoughts. Cast down imagine and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity to the obedience of Jesus Christ every thought, that you lean not to your own understanding. Why would He tells us not to lean to our own understanding? We go to school. We go to college. We do all these things to utilize our ability, our understanding, so that we can lean to our own understanding, and to commercialize in life, or get those things that pertain unto life. But that isn't God's pleasure. That isn't God's way. That's Satan's way. So then, we have the minister to come and put the cream, and the honey on the top and say, Now, that's exactly the way you do it. And all you've got to do, you know, we set up a church and we've got to tithing system and you can give a little on the side and here we go. But, nevertheless, that's wrong. You don't do it that way. Not at all. That's not the way to do it. So then, he says not to lean to our own understanding, and why is this? Because the understanding of man is corrupt. There is none that doeth good, no not one. Every man is turned to his own way. He looks to his own quarters for his own gain. (There's a spider. The Bible says the spider takes hold with his hand and he's in king's palaces.) A man that is diligent in his business shall stand before kings. All right. So, we know then God is telling us not to lean to our own understanding because as in Adam, to the natural understanding, all die. And that our own understanding is Satan's tool of death. For to be carnal minded is death. There is nothing wrong with carnal things. If you want a carnal thing, as an automobile, house and lands, whatever, God has provided all these things but when you are carnally minded you are dead, living in trespasses and sin. The Bible says they that live in pleasure are dead while they live. And some of them twice dead and plucked up by the root to the extent that they have already crossed the deadline, as to the spiritual connection. Having come to the knowledge of the truth and then reject it, there is no more sacrifice for mercy, or no more sacrifice for sin, as to Calvary. Calvary only applies when you don't know. And where there is no knowledge of sin, the Bible said, sin is not imputed. But when you come to the knowledge of sin and you reject it then that means your end. Not only are you dead in trespasses and sins, as to having fell through the fall of Adam, but then your spiritual being is cut off from God to where you can never be saved. All right. So you've crossed the deadline. So the Lord is telling us not to lean to our own understanding for one reason. For one reason, and that is because our human understanding from our very birth becomes interwoven with corruption in that Satan got in through Eve and then to Adam. So then the reproduction brings forth the image of the devil. And all of the world that was made in the image of God, they lost their image, and they fell from their image. And today they are in the image of the beast, and all of the world, the Bible says, has corrupted their way. All flesh has corrupted its way before God. And God came down in a human body called Jesus Christ, called it the Sonship, smote that body for you and for me to take away our iniquity so he could have fellowship with us. He killed that body and put it out of the way. And Paul said, now the body is dead because of sin. He smote the bastard child image and now He has sent forth the Spirit that was in that body, that human body called Jesus, into our hearts crying, Abba Father. So now we are sons. Neither male nor female in God. Neither Jew nor Greek. So we know that we are children of God. And the Bible said, Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. We know that we've already passed from death unto life because the Bible says we've already passed from death unto life and shall never come into condemnation. So we know that we are on the winning side and we've got God on our side. And I just thought I'd say these few little things before I read. My wife warned me before we came here, said, don't you get up there and take thirty minutes telling why you're late. So trying to be obedient, I thought I'd talk a little bit along these lines. You have to talk to people. Before you preach to people__ I learned something. I used to bounce up like a ball and scream and holler and go on until I couldn't hardly speak and I realized when I got through I might have got my congregation, maybe a third of them down at the end of what I was saying. And I found out that you can't do that. You've got to catch people's interest. You've got to talk to people and once you catch their interest you have their spirit. And it's the same as if a man was by the roadside hitch-hiking and he catches your interest, you catch his interest. Whenever you hook up together he gets in your can and you ride him on, he's in your car. And, see? When the preacher comes here it's the same way. See? When you're out yonder talking to somebody and a male meets female and they talk, you know, it it's wife, husband, that's fine because their one flesh. But, otherwise, if they talk with one another a little while and it's out of balance, as to wife and husband, or the companions being there, in a few minutes you're either going to be in the car with the female, or she's going to be in the car with you. Because you take a persons spirit. And as to catching her interest, if you catch her interest she's in the car with you. And as to what happens after that could prove to be detrimental and a real devastation. Or it could be vise versa. Whatever it might be because the Bible speaks of the harlot that shall seek for the precious sole. And they say stolen waters are sweet but you know not that they are quests from the chambers of hell. Now I said that to say this. When we come here I have to get your interest and if Christ is in my heart, and if I'm in the vehicle with Him, as we would say, then I've got to get you in there with us, or He has got to have a channel to work through to be able to reach out and get you in to his presence. That's why the Bible said, enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise, because there is no other way to get into the presence of the Holy Spirit. You are carnally minded. You are born in problems and the Bible said the spirit of foolishness is in the heart of a child from the beginning, as it begins to develop, and you're told to have a rod of correction as to give him an outline. Not to beat him and kick him around because of your temper, or being out of sorts, but to guide him and teach him and try to develop him. The Father of spirits does the same to us. He doesn't leave us without chastisement. If we don't get any problems, or don't run into any problems when we do wrong after that we have heard the truth then we are bastard children and we are not elect, and there is no need of worrying about that individual because they are not going to go into heaven anyway. They are made for this world and the love of this world is in their heart and all they will ever do is have their mind of things of this world, whether they are thirty years old, or whether they are fifty years old, or whatever. Their mind and heart will always be on the things of this world, because people love things and use things as a natural person, or these natural sources. But God never uses things; God uses people. And He gives things to man. Like a father, or a mother, would a little boy, giving them blocks to play with. They're toys. The old saying as to there is really no difference in the men and the boys except the size, or the cost, of their toys. And it's true because the Bible speaks of the children of this world. And indeed they are. The greatest men, as I say so often, like Einstein, they haven't even got the equality of a baby in a diaper compared to the knowledge of God. Not even__ And I know you say, Well, I think that's exaggerating, or just a statement. No, no. That's the profound truth. They do not have the equality. See? When the child is born in the Kingdom the first thing that happens to him is he's caught up to the throne and rules with a rod of iron. And all of Einstein's research in all of his life he never did break into the infinite. He never did. He defined, as to the finite, but he never could get across the Jordan of his intellectual concept because God has ordained it. You can't do that. The Bible speaks of this mind of Christ, the knowledge being higher above your understanding than the heavens is the earth. And that professors, and people of learning, even those that go to seminaries to study, as Brother Taylor, about six or seven years in college, and number of those years were spent in seminary. You don't even get near this even with your master's degree. So you never touch it. And the Bible goes to the great extreme of saying that never hath at anytime has these things ever entered into the heart, or mind of man. Never. Never at anytime. And He says, Eye hath not seen and ear hath not heard, and neither at anytime hath these things that God hath prepared for us entered into the human mind. And the Bible said that when these goods come a human being will never even see them, as to the eyes of their understanding, because their eyes of their understanding has been blinded because of the lust after faces and forms, figures and money and prestige and things. So that's their world. That's their thrill. That's their jubilance. That's their inspiration and they never make contact with the great Father of lights. So in this we see that they never even see. I tell you so often, people have the feeling that we're all going to stand before God there in that wonderful city called heaven and be put out, some of us, because we didn't make it. Folks, God isn't going to do that. You that don't have God, you will never see life. You will never see light. You are a creature of intellectual reasoning, which is called darkness, even the tree of knowledge, as from the fall in the garden, and you will never see heaven. He will never allow you to even catch one glimpse of heaven. The streets of gold, the gates of pearl, or anything else. See? You cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. I'm just talking to you here. See? And you could never see any of those things. Neither will you take one talent to hell with you. You might be a singer. You might be a philosopher. You might have all kind of money and goods, or whatever, but the Bible said we brought nothing into the world and it's for sure that we're not going to take anything out. And if you have any kind of talent you'll be stripped of that. The Bible said take it from him and give it to the man that was productive. All right. It would take all night long to get started to preach a sermon so you know how hard it would be if I preached a sermon, how long it would take. A lot of people feel like God is real short winded, you know, that he ought to preach about thirty-five, forty minutes and that be it. And that's about the way they're trained because most preachers aren't interested in the sermon anyway. They're interested in stirring you up to where you get jubilant, and get free and drop in your offering. We're not interested in that because there is no eternal life in offerings. We're interested in you getting the words of eternal life. They said, Where shall we go, You alone have the words of eternal life. My words are spirit and life. But, anyway, getting back to the major theme of our thought here. So we know then that we don't lean to our own understanding because that's the path of trouble, but we keep our mind stayed on Christ Jesus and we meditate in His laws day and night until every thought is concerning the Kingdom of God and the things of God, and the world of God. You know, a lot of people that don't understand they say, Do you mean to tell me that you are going to think on religion all the time. Man, you'll go crazy. You must be out of your mind. Tell me something. Explain this to me. If I can't think on heaven and the wonderful world of God, and the great eternal life, and the wonderful things of eternity, and of the great God that made them and keep my sanity how are you, with your little ole finite mind as a little thing stuck in a computer that is all out of control, fuddled up in your mind thinking on what you call education and colleges and schools and money and houses and land and frolics and your little feebleness of life, a hog wallowing in the mire and the dog lapping his vomit, how are you going to keep your sanity. Folks, you know, our evaluation is so improper. If God who made us and made our brain and our mind and our eyes can't take care of us as we give glory and praise and honor unto Him, to follow Him, and do the things that are so wonderful as to what He wants we had better close shop. We better rack up and quit. And if you that live for the devil, and indeed you are. If you have the love of the world in you, the Bible said, the love of the Father isn't there, because the Kingdom of Heaven is not in somebody that has the love of the world in them. I'm just saying this by way of remembrance. Though I know you know these things, Peter said, I feel as long as I'm abiding in this tabernacle to stir up your minds. One writer said your pure mind, which is the mind of Christ, if you have this mind. The Bible said let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. So we know then the reason we don't lean to our own understanding is because we trust in the Word and the Lord with all of our heart and we don't walk by sight. We don't walk by sight. Our interest is not in these human nerves, or those twenty-two conductive nerves that keeps teletyping on my brain. That's not my life. These little nerves that keep recording sounds, that's not my life. The taste buds that get so excited when you feed the mouth, and these little feelings of the body, and the hands, of exuberance as you become interwoven and intermingling yourselves with the opposite sex, or whatever it might be, as to the excitement of the beaches and the water. All these things we enjoy but we enjoy them as children, as to those things as children. That's children. You've never even got, as to your greatest man Einstein, to the equality as to one that would be in their diaper, as to the spiritual. So the children of the world play with their boats and everything else and God tells us not to get into that world. Not to get into that thinking. And Paul said these people have separated themselves. Sensually they have separated themselves from the spirit, or by their human senses, the five human senses. And I say this by way of remembrance one more time. You world here is a fantasy world. It's not real. It's vanity. Like looking in the mirror. It's something like the mirror produces. It's only a reflection of the great world, and of the great life. And it only exists because there is a reflection of it, as from that great world. As I told you, there will be no doctors, as to any physicians that had any sense at all. Nor there wouldn't be any healing medicines. And the Bible said in that day there won't be any healing medicines. When the church goes out the light of understanding, them that are of a good understanding, they go out. And when they go out the doctors become as morons. They become as imbeciles. For the Bible said there will be nothing but an intellectual darkness that will cover the Antichrist's kingdom and he will gnaw his tongue for pain, and there won't be any healing medicines. The hospitals, all these things will be nothing because these things come from God and God has allowed this in the time of your infirmity and weakness in the stride of your life when you are a beast. Someone would say, Well, bless God, I ain't no beast. But scientist have proven that you are. Science, modern knowledge. Paul said, knowledge falsely so-called. Ever learning and never understanding anything. Books and books and books and books, and yet this is the book of books. And they never come to understand it, for the Bible says the wicked shall not understand when good cometh because Satan, Lucifer the prince of this world, has blinded their eyes, even the eyes of their understanding that they shall not see through the eyes of their understanding when the great light of God comes. Which means understanding. So then, as to the body of the beast there it is. And what does the Bible say about it? All the world wondered after the beast. Which means all of the world wondered after the flesh. I say that over and over. All the world wondered after the powder, the paint, the lipstick, Hollywood, the race tracts, Miami, all these other things around the world. Frolics. Six Flags, and whatever. Frolics, worldliness, the love of the world. The things, the excitement of the human senses. But all of a sudden we find that when the spirit moves out of the body the human senses go dead. I've said this before, if you go blind a part of your life is gone, a great part of it. Because those little nerves won't work anymore. And then when you go deaf those little nerves don't work anymore and another part of your world is gone. Because that's all it is, is a stimulation of nerves. I've explained this before, that if the cosmic energy coming from above strikes your thalamus, or hypothalamus, as to metabolism and comes down in there to the pituitary gland you have to have those vibrations for every part of your body, every part of your body for it to stay healthy. That's why when people get older they don't reproduce. They're not fertile anymore because of a malfunctioning of the organic parts. God did that. He did that. He didn't do it in the sense that He wanted it that way. He suffered it that they might reproduce in the time of their youth and then to stop that as years went on so that He could neatly fold them up and lay them away to sleep until He came to wake them after that they had had their chance in this life, to see what they would do with life and see if He was going to continue life, or refurbish life. Or that if they were going to sleep, like the little story, until Prince Charming comes by and gives them that wonderful kiss of charity to awake them from their sleep because, folks, when He comes by it's for sure that He is not going to mess with the dead. You can't look for the living among the dead, and Jesus is alive forevermore. So you can't find Him among the dead. He isn't going to mess with the dead, and them that does not have Christ's Spirit will be dead. But them that have Christ's Spirit it's impossible for them to die because death is the separation of your spirit from God's spirit, and sleep is the separation of your spirit from your body. So there is a world of difference. Nothing less than a world of difference. See? So we know that we are alive forevermore. We preserved our life. We preserved our youth. We preserved our strength. We are going to be exceedingly rich. We are going to know all things. We are going to have the wonderful, glorious glitter of heaven with all of its wonderful, wonderful goodness. And while the world looks at us to think that we are the ignorant people we're the only people that is not ignorant. Everybody else is ignorant and everybody else is considered dogs. Everybody else is considered swine. Everybody else is considered animals, and we're the only ones that is not animals. And even though we, as this inner spiritual being, we're tabernacling in this little body that's animal, but we are not animal. And all of a sudden, like the butterfly in the time of the metamorphosis, as to the cocoon, we break forth and we leave the old worm behind. Wherein the Bible speaks of this generation as being, all down through the years, being the generation of vipers. Which means that that is a derivative from the garden, as to the tree of knowledge and Satan is the motivation of your life, and the only thing you have to be called life is a breath going in and out of your nostrils. And the Bible speaks of man whose life, or his breath, is in his nostrils. Whether you scar it out of him, or knock it out of him, or whether you just hold his nose just for a moment or two and don't let him open his mouth it's gone. It's gone. So we know then, as to what as I have said, it look like I ain't going to get to read here, just talking to you trying to say a little something here to you being so late. But, anyway, as I tried to explain to you in the past, as to the sin in the garden (I might as well just go ahead and talk to you like this.) that as to the sin in the garden when man sinned against God it cut off the inspiration of God that kept him alive inwardly and outwardly. And at that time it was just an overshadowing, because he had not yet made his decision as to sovereignty to choose life or death, even though the tree was before him as to like and death. See? But, anyway, here he is under the inspiration of Almighty God. He is alive eternally if he stays under there, but he doesn't have eternal life. If the son happens to go down, or that is he strays into the darkness, he's just a beast. He's made out of the dust. Whereas we're not a beast. We're not made out of the dust, as to our second birth, and we can't be enticed out from under the Shekinah Glory because we are inter woven with Christ, as to the Shekinah Glory, and we're born of the Shekinah Glory. And it will eventually penetrate and the life of Christ will eventually be made manifest in these mortal genes, and this mortal body, as to the tabernacle called the creature, will be changed into the glorious liberty of that inner spiritual son of God, as to the glory, the joy unspeakable and full of glory. And one individual will be so great and wonderful, beautiful, bright until they will outshine the brightness of the noonday sun. And we're pretty close to that now. Pretty close to the change. That's what I wanted to speak to you about tonight, as concerning Russia, concerning Israel, and concerning the present day happenings as to the Biblical light, and just exactly where we stand as to the stride of time, but I got here to late. These things detain me and I know that Satan does that a lot of times, because calls could come earlier, and people could come earlier, but it was an emergency as to something ...(Begin tape one, side two.)....Anyway when man sinned against God he had to leave the presence of God. He no more could have the inspiration of life. He was cut off from Him. To keep man alive God switched him over to an electrical impulse to where he's like a robot, and the only life he's got it electrical impulses. And God allowed Satan, as to the one that causes the problems with the lightning and the thunderings and the storms and the billows of water and of the misery of life, he allowed Satan to take over because of being a super spiritual being but reflected God. He could reflect God and do the quickening, as to the atomic particles, the beaters, the little sparks, the atoms, He could keep man alive. And so He has done that. And so as the sun, the daystar, representing God in it's symbolics and the moon representing the lesser light as to the night, having to do with the body, which is called the church, even the unchanged ones, Satan in the world working through that body, no good thing, then Satan rules as a reflector, and so does numbers of the stars which are nothing but nickel and rock, the reflectors that are going to fall from heaven when God shakes it. And we're pretty close to the shaking. See? Right there at the garden God switched him over and he's been switched over ever since. That's why Jesus used the terms at Calvary, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. That's why they give you shock treatments when your mind doesn't function properly. They will give you shock treatments and the shock treatments are to stimulate your human senses, as to the nerves, because what is causing you to be incapacitated, as to the extend of not being able to present yourself properly, is brain problems, as to the nerves, though you may have a good brain. And you stretched yourself out of proportion like a rubber band that's done gone as far as it can and now it's just flopping. So when these nerves get in these king of condition you don't have any sanity. When people get older, unless they have God, unless they are people that are filled with exercising they have problems. And even people that bounce around and lift weights and run and all these kind of things, they still get into problems. Like the champion swimmer of the world. Before he died they had him in diapers, I believe. And even at seventy out swam all the young men, but before he died his strength just went away. See? And many things we could say as to that as to the natural things that you would understand. All right. So then, we know that we have been switched over. Why? Because of sin. Why would God do us like that? It isn't that God did us like that. The Bible says God hath no pleasure in death. You know, we're not born into this world to say, you know, we just live and we have to have good common sense. We know that everybody has to die after awhile. We have to do everything we can here because that's the way God wanted it. No, no, that's wrong. The Bible teaches death is God's enemy. God didn't have nothing to do with you dying. The Bible said man did that. Death came by man, the Bible said. And God warned man not to mess with death. Said, Don't you mess with that tree. That is the tree of life. But man didn't listen. Somebody would say, Well that crazy fellow. Adam. I sure wish I was back there. I know what I would do. Well, grace come and the blood is on the seat of atonement and you're back. And what are they doing? They're turning the grace of God into lasciviousness. The time of the grace of God to where they could prepare their hearts, listen to the voice of God in the earth, in that God said it isn't the minister speaking but God, they have to listen to rock and roll. They've got to watch television and the crazy make believe of Hollywood and all of this foolishness that someday when they stand before God and it dawns on them what they've done, or someday when the death angel comes and starts choking the life out of them, they're going to say, My God! What a fool I've been. Where are the words of life? But the Bible said wisdom stands at your gate. It calls to you and says to the simple minded, turn in here. But they won't. And wisdom says, and the day will come when you will desire Me, and you will call for Me, but, said, I won't be around. I won't be there. I won't be present. I will laugh at your calamity and I will mock when your fear cometh because you didn't want anything to do with me. You wanted the world. You wanted the frolic. You wanted the money. You wanted the prestige. You wanted to be with the elite. You wanted to be in the upper echelon when the Bible said to condescend to men of low estate, that the common people heard God gladly. Said, the rich had their rewards. Folks, has it ever dawned on you like this, that God could have made me a billionaire and could have made that billionaire my footstool. Have you ever considered that? Somebody says, Man, I wish I was a billionaire. I'd love to strive and I'd love to get rich. The Bible said men of God flee these things. People following after this, many of them have pierced themselves through with sorrow. For to get rich quick, the Bible said, it's not without sin, and you'll be cut off in the midst of your days and in the end you'll be a fool. You'll realize that you are a fool. See? I'm not trying to be a millionaire. God could have made me a millionaire, or a billionaire, and made that billionaire the preacher. I'm glad that I'm a preacher. I'm glad that He didn't blind me with the things of the world and the riches. That's the land of Esau. God has given them those things. He tells you, as Jacob, to pass through that land and pay your way. Don't con. Don't steal. Don't cheat. Don't rob. Keep a good name. Pay your way. Be willing to work. Have a mind to work. There's reward in all labor, but the talk of the lip only tends to penury. If a man isn't a Christian and he's willing to work for his family he's got some respect from God. Because if a man professes religion and he won't work and make his family a living God said he's worse than an infidel. Because most of the time the infidel will make his family a living. All right. So, getting back to our little thought here and we won't keep you long. What has happened? What has taken place? You've been ousted out of the garden. You've been put out of the garden and now you're living in trespasses and sin and you're dead while you live. See? And you're nothing but an intellectual, and your body is nothing but a composition of atoms, as to little atomic particles. And you are in an environment, as to your surroundings, a magnetic field. That's all. That's all that keeps you alive. Somebody would say, Well, I don't believe that. Well, try getting out of it and see what happens to you. You have to have everything that you can pin on your face, your nose, and your body, whatever, and take some of this with you that you've got down here or your gone. So that means that I can't jump in the water and keep living. I could hold my nose for a minute, or two, but after that it's too bad. I can't get in a spaceship and go up and get beyond this atmosphere, as to what I am, if I go too deep I'm crushed by the depths. If I even adjust myself to the breathing to get down into the depths, if I don't come up gradually and change that, if I just flip up like that my eyes pop out of my head and I'm like a balloon. See? If I go up yonder I have to be pressurized. Even you that fly in planes from place to place, if the plane isn't pressurized it can't get up there. Like different birds. Different birds, some are pressurized for high places, some aren't. In every natural thing of the world, the Bible said, all of the spiritual invisible things of God, all of these things are made known by the allegoric types of that which you see with your eyes, as to the natural sources of these things, as to the natural things. Everything is a spiritual type, even down to the blades of grass, the Bible teaches, and even to the Godhead so we're without excuse. That is, we can understand it. And He said, even as to the signs of the times, He said if you be religious and you can't discern the signs of the times and tell what God is doing, He said, your a hypocrite. Jesus said, You hypocrites. That will probably hit a lot of religious folks heart. All right, then. So we know that we have been ousted, as to the natural body, the natural man, and we have been hooked up to the cosmic energy and that we're dependent upon vibrations and every part of the body has to have a certain amount of vibrations. And if it doesn't have those vibrations it malfunctions. And anything that doesn't have a quickening to it automatically turns in to cairn, or rocks, or decays. Take a dog laying along by the roadside. He's laying there. He's dead, but he's whole. Everything's in tact. A few days later he's all bloated up. He's rotten. The buzzards have been eating on him, and whether it's man or dog it's all the same thing. If it wasn't for the running you through the funeral home at the time of your departure, whether young or old, and of course, to day it's a great threat to the youth, but when they run you through they put embalming fluid in you. If they did not put the preservative in you they would have to wrap you with spices, as the old way of the Egyptians, and if they didn't go that to make a cocoon, as to the spices, you'd rot. It'd be a terrible thing. And this big, nice, handsome, or beautiful you, and your jogging muscles you've got from lifting weights, and your great intelligence that you've got from a bald headed professor that says, now your equal to me, here's your master's degree. Jesus said, seeking favor of one another, and seeking honor of one another, He said, you're not wise. You need to seek the honor that comes from God. So how can you have the honor of God when you're looking for honor from one to another. So you go through your optical course here, you go through your training and college, or school so you come out with a degree, but what do you do with the degree? You apply to feed the belly because the Bible said the serpent is on his belly, and all of your labor is for your belly, and your mouth cause your belly craves it of you. So you get prestige, you get honor and you get money, and you get all of these things so you can comfort that little stack of bones that's got a little sinew that would rot overnight if the breath left, and then you think you're something because you gain a little prestige when all that you did was become a servant of tribute and somebody is using you in their program. And that somebody is Satan, because there is nothing in the world but what it belongs to Satan. The lust of the flesh. The lust of the eyes. The pride of life. And the Bible said love not the world, neither the things that are in the world for all, not part, but all that is of the world is the pride of life, the lust of the flesh and the world and the lust thereof passes away because it's a world of vanity, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. That's why you need the love of God in you. That's why you need the Kingdom of God in you. The Kingdom of God came at Calvary. The law and the prophets before that. Now men preach it and they give the name of Jesus as an entrance into it, and He said, men since then have pressed their way, as to the inner spiritual being, into that Christ Spirit. And if you have not that Christ Spirit you are not in the Kingdom because all things of God are in and through Christ. I cannot live a Christian life. There is no need of me trying to magnify myself and be, as what the world calls a goody two shoes. I can't live a Christian life. I'm not holy, as of my ability. I have no intelligence. I have no ability. As Daniel said when the great things were given to him, he said, I'm no different from anybody else. But for you sake God speaks. See? I can't live a Christian life. Only Christ can live the life that pleases God, because to live the Christian life you must obey the law, and you can't break one jot nor tittle of it. And the Bible said, By the law shall no flesh to be justified. Even the Jews. Paul said, You have it and none of you keep it. So Christ, Christ in whose image we were made in in the Garden, Christ has come into my heart. He lives the perfect life for me in the body of Jesus, and then when He folded up the law and laid it away saying, And not one jot nor tittle shall pass from the law until all is fulfilled. Think not that I have come to break the law, or to change the law, but rather to fulfill the law. And so He did. He fulfilled every jot and tittle. And He said, I tell you, as in His day before He fulfilled it as walking as a preacher, He said, until every jot and tittle is fulfilled it will not pass away. So He fulfilled it. He folded it up. He laid it away. Paul said, Now that it's fulfilled, as to the Gentile overseer, he said, we're not under the law unless we're fallen from grace. And if we're not in the grace of God we're still under the law and will be judged as transgressors of the law in the day of judgment because there is no flesh that can be justified in the sight of God by law. All right. So we're all transgressors and the law was added because of sin. And I'm saying that now that I have Christ in my life, as to the new birth, then my body is dead by sin. Jesus became me, as to sin that I might become His righteous body, as to the resurrected one in righteousness in the presence of the father, and be without sin all the days of my life. Now I'm born of God and cannot sin. The Bible said so, because I am born of God. I cannot unborn myself. I cannot sin. And as I said before I cannot die out of this family because this is eternal life. In your life you can die out, but in this once you're born again that's eternally and forever. Somebody would say, Well, what if you're born again, Brother Pike, and you become a Christian and then you start doing the evils of the world? Then God would have to look down and He would have to do something. He would have to kill you, or something. The Bible said God is not a man that He should repent, nor the son of man. You know, He doesn't have to do that. Why should God repent? Why should God start all over? God knows from the very beginning, as to not His beginning because He doesn't have a beginning, but from your beginning. As in Genesis, the word meaning beginning, He knows from the very beginning your entire scope of eternity. Why should He look down and let somebody be born again? Just not going to continue to be in spiritual life. And besides that, can God die? Eternal life is the Spirit of holiness, which is God. The Bible says He is the Spirit of holiness. He is the eternal life, as to Christ. He said, This life is in His Son, which is Christ, even the Holy Spirit Himself. And if you have that Spirit you have life. And if you don't have that Spirit you don't have any life. No matter if you are a believer; you're just a reflector. You may be a church member, hundreds and millions of them, but that don't mean they have eternal life. Life is spirit. All right, I'm trying to find a place to close here because there are hundreds of things that I need to say along this line, but just talking to you a little bit. Exhorting you the more as I see the day approaching, and certainly it is approaching fast. So then, what do we say? What do we say? Does everybody that comes to church than as a believer have eternal life? No. Nope. The spirit is poured out upon them? Yes. The tare and the wheat. You can come here, you can dance and shout, and you can do whatever you want to. You can be religious. You can become a Bible scholar. You can give in the offering. You can join the church. You can do anything you want to and die and go to hell. David said they come into the place of the holy and left and went into hell. So it has nothing to do with it. Life is a spiritual thing. There is no life without the spirit. The Bible said the body without the spirit is dead, and the dead know not anything. So we know then that the spirit is life. Well, we could say a lot about the life and the blood, whatever, scientifically speaking as to the world of chemistry. But just saying a few little things here because I don't need to take you very far. A lot of you are not in shape to go very far. You don't have the strength when you are on the hike. Like in service when we were hiking and they put us out on the field and were going to make men out of us because we were just boys. And they put a thin, short fellow out there, I believe he was that hiked all the time. He could move like a rabbit and he hiked, and we hiked, and he hiked, and we hiked, and when the sun came up in the morning we started our hike. When the sun went down we were still hiking. And over in the middle of the night we were still hiking, and I thought, What in the world is this, you know? He's going to march us to death. And our water gave out, and we were under a terrible circumstance, but what had happen he'd gotten lost and we didn't know it. We were following the leader. Now, folks, that sounds bad. I don't mean it wrong, but that's what the problem is today. You know, you're following the leaders and your leader had done got lost and you done got out in the dark and you don't know where you're at. And finally we found our way, as to the coming light, or along towards the morning. And of course, men, instead of falling into their barracks when they hiked they fell over to where the water was. They were out of water. But, see? You get lost and then the waters of life are gone and you are cut off from the waters of life and you can't find your way anymore and it's a bad situation. And I'm just here taking the time to tell you that I'm not lost and Paul said follow me as I follow Christ. I know where I come from. Somebody said, Well, I don't know where you're coming from. Well, I know where I come from. And I know where I'm at, and I know where I'm going. By the grace of God I know. And I thank God for that. And I thank God, as I told somebody today, God can keep you from temptation. People are tempted. I said, as to the man with great problems, I said, I'm no different from anybody else. I'm just a man. I'm no different. Elijah was just a man of like passions. We are all tested. We're all tempted. We're all tried. Even our great leader Jesus said the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. And the Bible said He was tempted in every point like unto you, but yet He was without sin. And I've been tried and I've been tested. I've been tempted every way down through the years, but as I said to the individual, I said, It's the truth before the living God, God's grace has kept me. And I said, He's kept me from all those things. His grace is sufficient. A lot of people make it sound like God's grace isn't sufficient because the dabble here and there and they do the things they ought not to and they manipulate. And they lead people to believe that nobody in the world can live holy, or be godly, or be pure and they say there is nobody perfect. But yet the Bible keeps telling us to go on to perfection. Why is it that God would not have anymore understanding than that, to say I know nobody is perfect and nobody can be perfect but you go on to be perfect? Sounds like to me that would be the author of confusion, and I wouldn't know what to do. As I said, the Bible said that Job was a perfect man. Find Noah to be a perfect man. You find the Bible said, And mark the perfect man in your day, as to the end of that man, for it shall be peace. To be ye therefore perfect even as our Father in Heaven is perfect. And then besides that as the Bible said, God hath already justified, sanctified and perfected, or made perfect forever his people, and they keep themselves and the evil one touch them not, that they are a church without spot, wrinkle or blemish, and that they are born of God and they cannot sin. Well, anyway, most of you understand what I'm saying there so we can't go into that as to why death is conquered, but you know. Let me finish my one, or two, thoughts here and we'll try to close. So then, we know that we are but the bastard child image in our first birth. And what does God think of us with all of our paints and powders, all of our glitter and glamour, as to being handsome and beautiful and bodily form that is so needful in the kingdom of the devil to destroy with, to turn you into harlots and whoremongers, whether it be as to the physical display of things, as to the allowance, or whether it be drunk off of the cares of life and giving everything to that. Whereas the Bible said, love the Lord with all of your strength, all of your mind, and come out of the world and be a separate people and touch not those things for they are unclean. See? They're unclean. There is a sanctification over them right now that if you seek the Kingdom first all of these things will be added unto you, and I'll give you the desires of your heart because I've given you all things that pertain unto life. You can have all of it but it has to be added unto you. You know, and right here I might as well drop this in. I wasn't going to go down this trail. I know you'd like to go and I'm going to let you go, but since the Lord brings it to me I'd better not get into trouble. I better say this. One of the problems with people, I preach the great deliverance of God, which I wanted to bring out something for your benefit. I preach the wonderful things that God has given unto you, as pertaining unto life. See? And then we get the idea that all of it's here. If what you're saying, Brother Pike, is right, then why is it I have this problem? Why is it that I'm sick? Why is it I'm in poverty? I'm a Christian. I'm a believer. Why is it that I have all of these things if what you say is true? I may not get to finish the thoughts on the inspiration verse of vibration, but anyway, you understand. So then__ I like to detail things because it builds a mind and that mind is there in case you have a dispute, somebody says something, or wind of doctrine that is contrary, trying to get a hold of you then it cannot. You are not blown about by every wind of doctrine. You are steadfast to understand, but I have to do as I can do in dealing with my students, as to whatever. All right. So we say, Why am I in this condition? Why? If God has given me all these things, then you say, Brother Pike, before you told me God has given me all these things I just took it for granted, you know, I'm up and down and in and out like a seesaw and a swing, and I'm from one revival to another. I get saved today and I back slide tomorrow and then I come back to God until next time. You know, and I just figured we're down here and we're doing the best we can and if we can, by some great phenomenal act, happen to get enough believing to kind of touch God, as least He'll help us. And that between the hospital and the doctors and the medicine and God we can work this thing out and I can at least get rid of some of the pain. Folks, it ain't that way. You know it ain't that way. We don't teach it that way. The Bible said He hath already given us all things that pertain unto life. Health, happiness, strength, prosperity, blessings. Leading three million people out of Egypt to Canaan by the way of the wilderness, they built a commonwealth without anything to do it with. And going there, and the Bible said, not one sick among them. Not one feeble among them. Not one. Though they didn't have the hospitals, they didn't have the schools, they didn't have the colleges, they didn't have the other things. Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, are you preaching against medicine and against hospitals? I'm not that ignorant. X- rays are good, but who was it that bought the x-rays? God put it in somebody's heart and the little common people bought it. But who was it that boycotted and took over? The philosophers, and the educational ignorant people that call themselves masters and whatever, and they boycotted, and by the means of the devil they've taken over the world. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. A medicine doeth good. Jesus said the sick need a physicians, but not some of the physicians of today. And they that have got out of tune with God, messing around in their muddled up mind, or their messy way of life that is just disrobing women and turning them in to filth and harlotry and then sending them back to the church to put on clothing, to act like a lady when they've been stripped down like a common prostitute. Somebody says, But, Brother Pike, don't you know he's a__ I know he's a man. I know that's lust. And as I said before, even the dentist, having exposed them, and then the doctors having exposed them and then run away with the man's wife. It's on record. He's a man. See? And what's happened to the world. The whole world. Now, God classifies it as to the end time, an adulterous generation. All of them are adulterers. Adulterers. Why not? The hospitals pushes the cause. The military pushes the cause. Given to drinking and drunkenness, and tell them they need to kill. And yet the Bible says that unless God keeps the city the watchmen rises but in vain. And yet God says that the battle is not to the swift, or to the strong, nor the race to the swift. But we say it is because our philosophy tells us that the man that gets out front in the race he's the winner. But yet the Bible tells us that God rules in all things, has His way in all things, and rules in the affairs of men, and that every king and queen that's raised up, every president that come up that they didn't get it by the vote. Said, He raised them up. I raise up one and I put down another. I work all things after the council of My own will. I rule in the affairs of man. Can evil come to a city and I didn't send it, saith the Lord. There can't be a storm. There can't be an epidemic. There can't be any problems in your life, in your home, in your body, but what God sent it. Not only that, but He said when you pray you need to pray that I don't lead you into temptation for the preparation of a man's heart is from God and you get on the wrong side of Me, I'll prepare your heart to just go right into temptation. I'll just turn the devil loose and I'll let him come down there and prepare your heart with the gullible desires of this world and you'll find yourself turned over to a reprobate mind because you didn't have a love for My truth. And I'll let you go on and be damned. All right. How many of you understand what I'm saying tonight? You understand? There ain't much to it as a man. See? There is papers, degrees, all these kinds of things. Does that give me a right to encroach upon your sovereignty? or your decency? Or does that give me the right to Lord over you as some with their badges, and whatever? And to throw your children into jail and charging them with all of these so-called laws? Is that the law? Is that really the law? That's not the kind of law that I understood as to Washington and Lincoln and our forefathers. It was suppose to be liberty and justice for all. Don't sound like there is liberty and justice for anybody except those that move by force under the powers of Lucifer, and the constraints to gather the people into little groups and into societies to force everyone at one time or another to bow to the law to get their little monthly ...(Begin tape two, side one.) ...all of them can come under the constraint of the law to where there won't be any rebellion over the years, subduing them a little bit at the time to keep down the rebellion. And then at the end of the whole thing they've got everybody under their control even is they have to send out the ones with the census. And then they've got you tagged and they've got you under the number, and whatever. As I said, even the prisoners that get out under the little number to where they can contact them anywhere, you know, and get them altogether and then the Antichrist rises up. Satan sees the man that is able to control all the computers, and that by the great thing of Brussels, as to 666, as to the Papacy. His name being, as the Bible says, the number of his name 666. Which, as you know and have known that Vicarius Fili Dei means instead of Christ, as to the Pope, as to the father, as to the head of the Catholic Church and bringing it all under that as to the king of the north carrying the whore when we predicted it years ago that they'd come together. I believe Gorbachev just made the statement he had to go see his father the Pope. And I believe that they said Bush made the same statement; he had to go see his father the Pope. See? But, anyway, all of it coming__ And I'm not going to try to get into that, cause like I said, I wanted to get into some of those things tonight but I'm not going to try to get into that. I'm not trying to be evasive but I'm just going to leave that because I've said quite a few thing, even more than I intended to say already. Had it not been for your keen interest I would not have gone this far it being this late. But, anyway, as pertaining to the major theme of our thought here, so then, what has happened? Now the world has gone sports crazy. They are already ravished, even the little daughters and everything else. They've turned them into prostitutes and then they try to make them act like ladies. No wonder they go down to the beaches and strip off. And it's no wonder they run to and fro in the world, you know, with the kind of clothing that causes them to lust after one another. It's no wonder that the woman is so bold she gets right in your face and starts when the Bible says she should be shamefaced and shy away so that spirits can't make contact. It's no wonder the man he's just out front, he's got to talk to everyone that comes along, and he's just gullibly running over as he is so exuberant right in their face when the Bible told him to be grave. He was to be grave. The woman was to be shamefaced so that the spirits don't make contact because the body is a body of sin at this time and Satan has got the body, and the only way it's dead is by the body of the Lord Jesus. But, no, not the people of today. They have to do it differently. And they press their little children, as to their daughters, to send them to the colleges. And then when they get over there they become prostitutes because what they've got over there is whoremongers and prostitutes. And it's just a place for them to get over there to live together. And then they want a little excitement so they start streaking by completely stripping off. And from the old tree of knowledge the grind continues, and the devil continues to get his strength. And the system of the world being corrupt and rotten to the core it's not of God. God doesn't own this world. The devil owns this world. The devil is the prince of this world. He is the prince of darkness and all that is of the world is corruption, and the Bible said it'll pass away, but he that doeth the will of God will live forever and we look for new heavens and a new earth, because this is lying vanities and it will all pass away. It's not real; it's like a dream. And the Bible teaches that it will all pass away and if you observe these lying vanities, as to observation, as to desire of these things as to the love of these things, the Bible says he that observes vanity, or lying vanities forsakes his own mercy because Calvary is mercy to you and you can't have it because you cannot eat at the table of devils and eat at the table of God. If I observe lying vanities, as to what my human reflect says, as to those little ole nerves, then sickness, or whatever, I can't have any faith because my mind is carnal and it's enmity with God, and it's not subjected, or not subject to the Word of God and the things of God. It's Satan's mind of enmity, which is the old tree of knowledge and everybody is forced to it. And the daughters are forced into it. And the sons are forced it to it. And the man with the badge sees that you do it. That's why we have our little school out here. The Bible says we're called unto virtue and glory, and tell me, where is there virtue in the world? Said, if anything have any virtue in them look on these. Hasn't Satan gone to a great length to see that there is no virtue in the billboards. There is no virtue in the televisions. There is no virtue in the women. There is no virtue in the men. There is no virtue in the boys. There's no virtue in the girls. Hasn't he gone to great length to see there is no virtue in the conversations, and on and on and on? Sure he has. Why? Because he wants control. He does control. He's the Prince of this world. All flesh has corrupted it's way before God, and God has laid upon Jesus Christ the iniquity of us all and it was He that was bruised for our transgression and the chastisement of our peace was laid upon His back by whose stripes we are healed. All right. So then, we see how rotten and corrupt it is, but still the religious people run it. I am not complaining as to the world running after it. How can I complain? I've been a country boy. I've raised hogs and we had dogs, hunting dogs, and whatever. You know, how can I complain because a hog wants to wallow in the mire? How can I complain because he bubbles in the slop? After all if you're raising hogs you're the one that poured the slop out there for them. How can you complain if he eats it when you gave it to him? The Lord said these people are swine; they're beast. They fell from their image, their sonship in the garden, and they're nothing but beast. See? Those people, what do they have to do with God? Those people being beast, that's the land of Esau. Why do you want to get upset because they want masters degrees in college, and honor one among another? Or they want to be Beetles and Elvis Presleys? Rock and rolls, and whatever it might be? See? Why do you get upset? That's their life. That's their world. They don't know nothing. They don't see anything. That's all they see, they're human senses. And, folks, that's the way you see, as to the human senses. As I've explained to you concerning the little thing of my children as we were traveling, how I showed them that's the way that you see. You don't see with these eyes. These eyes are nothing but reflectors, as to the twenty-two conductive nerves from the eye to the brain. That's all you see is the reflection, and that of vanity. All right. So we know when the nerves stop, as to taste, smell, sight, feel, all of these, we're dead. That's the end of it. No more life, because that's all the life you've got. And if these nerves get out of sorts__ And, folks, they will. They will. Somebody says, I just love this life of them nerves. Let them just keep on flickering, and let them keep on vibrating. So then, you take to the world and you go after it, and God says, All right, all right, you can have it. Now, He says, there's going to come a time, the preacher says, when it's going to be different, your life, and it's not going to be like you are drinking at the fountain and the soda pops, and the hamburgers and the frolics, and the fine meals, and the wine and the refreshing and the frolics. It won't be like that always because this body is ordained to become a prison. It is a prison. You are imprisoned by this body, and the only escape is when Jesus does away with the body. Otherwise your spirit is imprisoned to Satan who is in the body. And someday it will be cast into hell where the worm dieth not, as to the old worm because you didn't go through the metamorphosis and you are on your belly, as to the dust of this world. From the dust you came, Jesus said, you're from the world, back to the dust you go. But I'm not from this world. He said, I'm from Heaven, I do back to Heaven. Them that are in the foreknowledge of God. Them that are in the elect of God, and God said to Job, Where were you before the morning stars ever sang together, when the son's of God leaped for joy before the world ever was founded. Well, anyway, we said something about that the other night. But, you that came from Heaven, you go back to Heaven. Somebody says, Well, I don't see how that could be. Well, Jesus said, the son of man which was in Heaven, which is in Heaven, even as He talked to Nicodemus, standing there in that natural body. And then He said, You and I are members in particular of His body and He said, I'm from Heaven. So then, we know where we're from. That's why we have eternal life. Though in this, when we look at it we realize what a great thing God has done. But the beast, all the world wondered after the flesh, which is the beast, the gullible desires of the flesh. And they are creatures of this world, but Jesus said, I am not of this world. You are of world. See? We're not of this world. Jesus said concerning us, said, you're like Me. I'm not of this world, neither are you of this world. Said, if you were of this world the world would love it's own. But in that you are not of this world then the world hates you. And they do. They Jim Jones us with their old intellectual ignorance and the their PHD's. They take the real, genuine Word of God and the expressions of Christ, whereas the Bible said it's not you speaking but God Himself, as to the Holy Spirit speaking within His body in that your body is dead and you are not what you was but now you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And with their ignorance they start calling something a cult. They start calling something Jim Jones. They do anything they can to kill the inspiration of it. Satan uses them for the Bible said they're taken into captivity at the will of the devil. And he uses them to protect the frolics of the world because he's the king of this world. He's the king of the bottomless pit. He loves the things of the flesh. Jesus said, Satan, thou savorest the things that be of the flesh. And so then, he inspires them to muddle up everything, to kill the inspiration, to kill the witness, to kill the testimonies, to kill the character and destroy the character of the righteous so they won't have any power in the earth. He says, we want separation of church and state, and the separation is that the church can't use nothing the state has got, but that the state rules over the church and uses everything they've got, even to the taxing. That's the truth. Let's give the Lord a hand. Do you believe that? That's the truth. I'm just telling you the way it is and we say, Liberty and justice for all, for all that carries the badge and the gun who are enslaved to the man with the money, for the money answereth to all things, and the whole thing is rotten and corrupt and beginning to stink in the sight of God and He's just on the verge of turning loose the buzzards to clear it up. You know, buzzards are symbolic. There are some people that are nothing but buzzards. Jesus said he's a swine, dogs, or buzzards. And one fellow, he said, concerning Herod, said, Go tell that fox. So there are people that just lavishly go about, they're so gullible they are buzzards. They eat and drink up every filthy thing that they can see, every filthy thing that they can hear, and everything that's turned into cairn you'll find they gnawing. Pardon my expression, I say, I'm from the country. That's a good simple way. John was just a woodsman, and John didn't have the polished ethics so his approach was a little bit seemingly, as to an indignant thing, but he said, Folks, the best way to get rid of it is to lay the axe unto the root of the tree and cut the thing down. And sure enough he did. He came and he laid the axe to the root of the tree at Calvary. Jesus hung on the cross, as to the tree, became a curse for us. The Bible said cursed is any man that hangeth upon a tree. He cut it down from there all the way back to the garden, the entire generation, all the way. And the tree fell and everything died, as to that generation. And today it's continuing on, they that are under the law, as to that tree having fell. The branches of that old intellectual tree is a stink in God's nostrils. It's been cut down and that's why you find it rotting today in it's activities. But Jesus said I'm a green tree, and here stands the tree of life. So then, He said, now you that are not caught in Adam, as in Adam all die, but you that are born again, as to the washing of the waters of regeneration, He said, now eat from the tree of life and have your fruits unto holiness and the end thereof eternal life. So as to say these few little things as what we're saying tonight, and many things that we need to say, as to finish our thoughts because we barely scratched the surface with our little get togethers. As I say, it took eighty days for God to have a little conversation with Moses. Forty days again and again to have conversation with a few of the others, and if we get our little get together we just have to make out. We get a little lunch. Hardly ever can we get a whole meal. All right. So we say we've got to do things, we've got to be places. And I say, You were made for the glory of God. God says, man was made for My glory. And you're suppose to mediate in My laws day and night. You must take no thought for what you'll eat, or drink. I'm the one that does that. Somebody says, Well, I've got to get in my forty-eight hours a week. I've got to work. So we go down to the whale and we say, you've got to have forty-eight hours a week; you're a big fellow. There he lays, the old lazy whale and he doesn't work but forty-eight hours but he gets bigger and fatter. Even as to the prehistorics, as to the biggest animals they say, that according to the weight, they were not equal to the ninety ton whale of today, the blue whale. And yet all of those fellows out there and God feeds them. All the sharks out there and God feeds them. All the animals roaming around in the jungles, as to the elephant, and God feeds them. But you are sure you've got to have your forty-eight hours or you'll starve to death. Isn't that terrible, and we talk about faith. Then we say, Well, who has got the faith? You know, if it wasn't sacrilegious, and I know that it would be, then you'd have to say the elephant did, and you'd say the man don't know nothing about faith. Somebody would say, Well, I don't believe, Brother Pike, that man don't know nothing about it. Well, why did Jesus say, faithless and perverse generation. And why did He said, a sinful adulterous generation? Why did He destroy them all except Noah and his little family in his day? If Jesus Christ was the same yesterday, today and forever, (and He is) He did the same thing with Sodom and Gomorrah. Just Lot and his two daughters made it. And if He's the same today, and the Bible said, this is as the waters of Noah to me, then how many are going to be saved today. You know, I said this before again and again, not being comical, but in Noah's day you know there was eight. But you know that when the great deluge came in Sodom and Gomorrah it was cut half into and there wasn't but four. And then you know that when the great escape, as to Egypt through the wilderness into Canaan came it was cut in half again. There wasn't but two. And now that we're having the great exodus of today it is to be cut in half again, so that leaves who? Just one. Just one. And as I said, the Bible said, and the promise is not as unto seeds of many, but as of one, even Christ. And if you're not the body of Christ and if you don't have Christ's Spirit in you to make you that body, in that Paul said it's not me living but Christ that liveth within me, and the life I now life I live by the Son of God, in that I'm bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and if you don't have that you're not that one. And if you're not that one you don't have eternal life, you didn't make it. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right. So we see why He said straight is the gate and narrow is the way, and He said, I am the way, and no man come to the Father but by Me. Strive to enter in for many shall try but the door will be shut and you won't be able to get in. The virgins didn't have the oil. Though they were believers they still couldn't come in. So we see where we're at. And many hundreds of things that could be said to you tonight, as Paul preached all night long just expounding a few things. But I say this: We're His body. We want to give Him a few minutes about two, or three times a week, and some wouldn't dare do that, and then we've got to give all of our other time to the devil that savors the things of the flesh. And all of our exuberance and all of our time when we're suppose to be praying all that time. Pray without ceasing. Mediate in His laws day and night. Be about the Father's business. This is suppose to be our life. This is suppose to be our world. Folks, the world isn't going to go along with you, why do you go along with them. That's their world. This is our world, even the heavenlies. See? Why don't we get in here and have the diligence that they have? the Bible says that the children of this world is wiser in their ways than the children of light. That is they just whole hog or none, somebody says. They're not wiser than the children of light but they're wiser in their ways cause whatever they reflect from they church they really get the best out of it, the most out of it. Well, anyway, that's the way it is. We should be as it was in the early church when the Bible said they had all things common. They broke bread from house to house and they continued steadfast in the apostolic doctrine, in Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and for ever. When he called them in Egypt He took them out of Egypt. He put them all together. He didn't want them messing around in Egypt. Somebody would say, Well, that was for that day. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever; He said, Come out of her. Come out of her, My people, she's the great harlot. That flesh is the great harlot. Come out of her. It's that thing of Eve and the beast. Come out of her for her sins have reached unto Heaven. That is they're going to the moon now. Making the nest among the stars. Apollo, the devil. And though you climb up into the upper lintels, as to the serpent, the old intellectual mind, as into a spiritual realm to get in to where this grace is, as to blood on the seat of atonement. Spots in our feast of charity. Eyes of adultery that cannot cease from sin. Beguiling souls, as to unstable souls. Promise them liberty when they themselves are the servants of corruption. Though you make your nest among the stars from thence I will cast thee down to hell. And, folks, it's on the verge of that happening. Well, anyway, we're going to stop right here. I didn't get to finish my thoughts this morning. I need to finish my thoughts. But, anyway, we'll stop right here as we say this one thing. And that is, having been switched over to the world of energy, as to the cosmic energy, there are many things we could say in detail there. That means that you don't have life and just a good shock and your breath is gone. That's the only life you have. But if you don't switch over as the baby from the milk to the meat and get into that thing where Jesus breathed upon them and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. He breathed upon them and said, Receive ye life, as to the new man. Not the breath of that life just to start the little ole heart as the pump to pump and push the blood through to create a friction that you might keep enough heat to stay alive. Not that. You know, that stuff is slowing down as you get older and you are not as active. Start slowing down and after awhile the friction is not there and the body malfunctions and death has set in. Why? Why? You've got just as much of you as you ever had, and sometimes as you get older you have a whole lot more of you than you had to start with. And you've got your eyes, and you've got your hair, and you've got your brain. You've got everything else, like I was telling somebody. You know, somebody says, I do my thinking with my brain. I said, Well, that's great, you know, if you can do that. I said, According to what I understand nobody can think with their brain. Oh, yes. I said, Well, why don't dead folks think? They still got their brain. The Bible said the dead know not anything. Of course, you know, he doesn't understand. But the thing is, I'm just telling you. I'm just tell you, you know, as one that loves you, we are now born again, as them that love God. We're not on vibrations. We don't have to have stimulation, or activation from the world. We are born of life and spirit and we are inwardly activated, and our refurbishing is of God. And I am closing. And some of them would say, Well, what do you mean? I mean we're restored back to that image of God and we're born of His bone and flesh of His flesh cause that was the image He made us in. Let us make man after our own image. Not the old bastard child image, as to that which is the beast that's running after the flesh as to everything exuberant to head up in the 666 and the beast, which is right at hand. So then, we are not that. We are people of life. Jesus said, I am the Prince of Life. I come that you might have life, and that more abundantly. Satan is the prince of this world. He took the title away from Adam. Do you understand? Do you really understand these things I'm saying? So we're not on vibrations. We are inspired. If the vibrations stop we don't die. Hear the vibrations from that converter? We're going to have to do something to it. It comes on ever once in a while then stops. But it come on at a good time. The devil would have liked to interfere but it just worked just right in behalf on the Lord; everything does. So then, see? When the vibrations come on you're all right. When the vibrations leave you've got problems. As you get older, as I said, you're gone. But the scientists of this world say, Well, you're just worn out. You're just worn out. Like Brother Mike's grand dad said a few days ago. He was a hundred years old. He said, I'm just worn out. See, folks? There ain't no such thing. There has never been a day like that. There never has been anything that God has ever made, and all things emanate from God. There has never been anything that God ever made that could wear out. And like scientist have discovered, they said that even the heart__ People having heart conditions, the heart stopping, they say that scientists have proven that the heart is the greatest phenomenon in all the world, as to a pump. That it can go for hundreds of years, and any other pump they make in a little while wears out. See? Fifty years old, you're not worn out. Eighty years old, you're not worn out. Somebody says, Well, how did I get in this kind of condition? You believed yourself into that kind of condition. But that old intellectual mind of yours, to be carnally minded brought death. Death comes by man. Somebody says, Well, now, Brother Pike, let's look at it like it is. If I die you're going to die, too. Oh, no. No. You're looking at lying vanities. I'm never doing to die. I've fixed it up with Jesus years ago, as the song writer says. And I've passed from death unto life. You're going to die because death comes by man and you're the one that's allowing it. But when the mind of Christ is there and the Spirit of God is there you can't die. There is no way you can die. How can eternal life die. That doesn't make any king of sense to me at all. Eternal life can't die. Somebody says, Well, bless God, this flesh can die. No. That's wrong, too. How can the flesh die? Well, the Bible said the body without the spirit is dead. That's true as to your intellectual. That's right. The only thing is, when Jesus came to the tomb of Lazarus and they said, He's dead. He said, Lazarus sleepeth. They couldn't understand it, so, Okay, he's dead. Paul said, as concerning dying, I show you a mystery. We shall not all die. Die. No, he said, we shall not all sleep. Sleep. We shall not all sleep. To begin with we can't die. And when we get tired our spirit just picks up from our body. It goes to be with Christ. Somebody says, Where is he? Not up yonder, as I said, he's right here. Not up yonder. If he goes to be with Christ__ Somebody says, Well, he's up yonder, you know, up in heaven. I told you the other night, folks, that's childish. You know, it's not for the world because they're children of the world, but that is childish. Somebody says, Well, I know Jesus is up there. When I pray to Him, I pray to My Father who art in heaven and so I know heaven is up there. I know it is, too, as to what they call the celestial, the moon and stars and whatever. I know, it's up there. But if Jesus is up there the question arises, How can He be up there and be down here, too? The Bible said, where two, or three, come together in His name He's in the midst of them. So He's down here tonight. He's right here. And He's on the inside of me, how can that be? See? How can that be? Somebody said, Well, there's just on thing about it. He could be down here and He could be over yonder, He could be up yonder, and be in you and be in me, too. All right. So then, that's settled. Do you believe that? I sure do. Because He was made a quickening spirit. But the thought arises, if He's down here with me what do I want to go up there for? All I want to do is be with Him. And that was the subject, is to go be with Jesus. All right. So we see there is a lot of things that we have misconstrued and the only way to understand them is spiritually because this is higher above our heads, as to a natural man than the heavens is the earth. And the Bible said the path of this the wayfaring fool will enter into it. Though he enter into a bar room and stumble across anything, and though he be a wayfaring fool in error and stumble into anything he will never run across this path. And the eyes of the vultures have never seen this path. Never has it entered into the heart of men but the Bible said God has revealed these things unto us and we know them by His Spirit. That is, the mind of Christ. To let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus. So then, we're going to conclude by saying this last thing that we've tried to say here and that is: God's things don't wear out. It's unbelief that kills them. God's things don't wear out. Enoch was translated by faith that he should not see death. Unbelief kills you. It shortens your days, Even by your disobedience it brings unbelief and the Bible says you shorten your days. And you lengthen your days, the Bible says, by speaking good, by believing. The ordination is three score and ten. Some live longer by reason of strength. But the thing is, folks__ I say this in closing. If jogging is the answer why was it that one of the major joggers dropped dead a few days ago. If eating and drinking is the answer why has every man that eat and drank died except that of divine ordination of God. And if the body wears out why did Enoch live to be three hundred years old. And why did Methuselah live to be nine hundred years old. Somebody says, Well, it was just one of those things. It was before the flood. You know, it rained, we had a flood. We had a lot of floods. I don't know of anybody that lived to be nine hundreds years before, or after. But you say, But don't you know, the ark floated on the water? What has that got to do with it? We have ships on the water everywhere going from one side to the other. Some of them a lot bigger than the ark. Somebody would say, But, Brother Pike you talk foolish. That's what I'm trying to tell you. You're foolish when you think like that. Paul said, I speak as a fool. That's a fool's thinking. God don't wear out. God don't die. God don't get tired. There is no night and day. It's just the sun going around the earth. You know that. See? God did that for your little ole tired weary bodies. That out yonder, the hospitals and the doctors, God just let that reflect so that the world would have some means as to while the world was going on so you could finish your course as the earth changes. And the Bible said the very day that lot went out of Sodom and Gomorrah, representing the church, that the end came, just like that. The fire and the brimstone. And we're on the verge of going out, all of us. All right. So we see we don't want to be celebrities, and singers and all these other kind of things. We want to be a Christian. I'd rather be an old time Christian that anything I know. And you see, the body isn't going to wear out. (Tape two, side two.) It's just going to go through a change, as to the terrestrial and celestial. So is the earth. And scientists having learned that they can't destroy anything, not anything, not anything. If your restless, Sister, you can slip on out. Remember, that's what I told you to start with. So, these things, as I say, go on tape. Once I get into them I have to go on until at least, not to finish them, but to get to a little place of a finishing line, because as I say so often, you can come and ask questions, or ask each other questions, or get the tapes. The other people can't. Well, if they get it on tape that's it. They can't get here, you know, and here to ask question so they have to wait on something else. It has to be somewhat in detail because I'm not just talking to you as a little group of people. I thank God for you. I thank God for what you do, but you're just a little tiny tab of folks. I'm talking to the world. Jesus said to the prophet, I've set you to be a prophet over the entire world, the nations. And He's told me to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. That's why I'm late tonight, is because they're setting up the crusade in Costa Rica. See? And to the radio and wherever these tapes go. And you're just a little tiny tab of people. My! hardy a drop in the bucket. Like the Lord said to Israel, said, you're the smallest of all people. I just used you as a little tiny tad to kind of get things in gear. God is the God of all people. Not scolding you, just reminding you to have a little endurance, see? if you're hanging on Calvary, which you aren't. All right. So nothing that God has wears out. If I lay down to rest it won't be because I'm worn out. I feel fine. Talk to anybody, it doesn't matter. Brother Thomas, ninety years old, or fixing to turn ninety, he'll tell you that that spirit in there is just as young, and just as much alive. As a matter of fact, he was telling me that the other day. As ever. Has nothing to do with it. But sin takes it's toll. Even if you're born again. It takes it's toll on the body even though you are out from under the curse and can believe, even to the transfiguration, or the translation. See? But the thing is, it does go through a change. And of course, that calls for another sermon, and another night. We're pretty close to it and I've been trying for months now to get around to preaching and talking a little bit on the change because we're getting right there close to it right now. Everybody is to be left behind except them that have the ability to get their masters degree. If you've been listening that's good. We're nearing the master's degree. To be like the master is to be perfect, and everyone that be perfect shall be as his master. But no man shall be above his master. And all those things in the world are just symbolic. Let's stand together and sing a little chorus, Brother Taylor. Forgive me for being late coming. Forgive me for taking so long. But thank God that you had enough patience to listen to the words of life because you're going to need them. You're schooling won't do you no good, and your college won't do you no good. And your experience won't do you no good. And your fame won't do you no good. And your popularity won't do you no good. And your appearance won't do you no good. Your parents, your children, your money won't do you any good. They'll throw it to the bats. But these words will not pass away. Heaven and earth will pass away. All that you have in the world will pass away. The stars will fall. Nothing will do you any good. The ocean itself will be taken away and won't be anymore, but the words of life they'll never pass away. He that doeth the Word will abideth forever. All right. Let's sing this chorus. To believe is to be saved. And to prove your faith, as to faith being within you, a child is known by his doings. Whatever he loves, whatever he believes that's what He practices. I like to practice being about my Father's business. And if it's in you, as to the love of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, you'll just love to meditate in His laws day and night. You'll love that world the way that people love this world. You'll love that milk and honey, as to the kindred of that world and life, the same way that the swine and the dogs love their vomit and their slop in this life. You say, Brother Pike, that sounded kind of crude. You say tell it like it is. Jesus told it like it was. All right. Somebody says, You mean you go calling people that kind of thing? I'm telling it like it is. Somebody said, Well, what should you do to them? Be kind of them. Anybody that's got a dog and a hog, they don't beat on them. They're kind to them. They can't help it. You can't get upset with the hog. Like I said at the beginning. Nor the dog. What can they do? That's all they see. That's all they know. That's their world. Let's sing together. Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated. The children not yet being born, it might not stand of works, or people that try to repent, but of him that calleth. Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated. The children having done, not as of yet, any good or evil. Paul said, can the thing that is formed say to him that formed it, why have thou made me thus? Don't the potter hath power over clay to make one to honor and another to dishonor? If He made you to be to where you are impatient, and can't listen to the Word, if He's made you to where you'd rather go to the frolics of the world, if He's made you to want to eat and drink, if He's made you not to have any interest in these things, can you do anything about it? If He's made me to love it? To love it with all of my heart, with all of my mind, with all of my strength? If He's made me to where I want to be here and minister, and when I ain't here I want to be ministering somewhere else, that all day long I want to be talking about Him, and keep my mind on Him? And all night long I'd rather be before Him than to lay on the bed like that even beside my own companion? who is very patient with me. Can you do anything about it?. Let's sing this little chorus together. Give me another key, Frank. (Singing) I really do. (Singing) Jesus said, you'll keep my commandments if you do. (Singing) Sing it with me again now. I love Him. Do you love Him? (Singing) Can you sing this with me? (Singing) They say there are thirty-two thousand promises, and God has given us all things that pertain unto life through these precious promises. If thou canst believe, for him that believeth all things are possible. Because if you are elect you are a believer. If you are a believer your children, your children (?) you are partakers of the benefits. All things are yours. (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus and while we sing this chorus the altars are open. (Singing) Sing that with me, will you? (Singing) Where will you be a million years from now? Let's lift our hands together, thank the Lord for His blessings tonight, for the gathering tonight, and the heavenly treasure that God gives to us carry it carefully in these earthen vessels. A mother that is carrying her little one she's so careful because she's carrying a life and it's so precious. And the wise mother keeps herself, watches after her little one that a health one, a healthy little one might come forth and be cuddled in love and the world might see the great wonderfulness of God, in that children are an heritage from the Lord. See? And the image of God continues to be reproduced as those little ones grow up, give their hearts to God and the great change is made back to the originality as Jesus said as to this we see now, it wasn't so in the beginning. It's vanity and will pass away. And we're not to observe these things, to forsake our own mercies, to covet after the world. So if you're young and healthy and you'd like to continue to stay young and healthy throughout eternity and not to loose that youth, well, the wise thing to do when the garden produces is to pick it and take it off of the stalk, put it through the process and then put it into the containers and seal it that contamination cannot set in and deterioration, as to rot, and then you have what we call the preserved, or that which is meat for use at the proper time when you go get it. And that's the way it is, folks. Now is the time to preserve your life. You have opportunity now. Don't take the outlook that when you stand before God, as to your religious inclinations, because that's all it is, that your going to be as good as anybody else and you'll have as much chance as anybody else. It doesn't even work like that. There is no such thing as going before God and weighing you, as to say you've done this much good and this much bad. Or you've been more over here than you have over here. God doesn't do things like that. That's man's way of doing things. But right now while there is the spark of life within you God says come. The Bridegroom says come. The Bride, as to the church, says come. To let whosoever will, for this is the translation by faith of your spirit into the wonderful Spirit of Christ, as to life and the change is taking place right now. The law and the prophets until John, since that time the Kingdom of God is here and men press the way into the Kingdom of God. Now is your chance. Don't be just a believer, as to a reflector, but get His Spirit. I remind you again, as to the nineteenth chapter of Acts, the upper coast of Ephesus, Paul the great apostle, the overseer of the Gentile church said to some people, Have you received the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Ghost, since you believed? They said, we've not so much as heard whether there be a Holy Ghost, or not. He said, Well, unto what then were you baptized? And they said, We were baptized by John, John's disciples. Said, John indeed baptized with water unto repentance, but if you don't go any farther than that what would you be? A reflector. But He said there's one that's coming after me, His name is Jesus. He hath His fan in His hand and He shall thoroughly purge His floor to get His grain, and then He will cast the chaff into the fire. Utterly burn it with fire. So then, God has the winnowing fans going right now and He's passing over you. And as the old winnowing fans, as to the dry wheat and the grain, they trample them under foot on the floor of the thrasher and then the winnowing fans would go thus. and as they moved the chaff would fly up as they trampled it, and the winnowing fans would carry it away and leave the grain before we got our modern devices. And the Bible said that He will trample the vineyards without the city, as to gather all nations there, and the blood will run to the horses bridles. And the grain is going to be brought in and God is beginning already to trample the floor, as to Jerusalem being trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the days of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And now the strange doctrines of changing the Bible from it's originality, people becoming blind and ignorant until the true word of life will be gone and all they'll have is some man stealing it, as to what I was reading a few days ago. The great scholars have got together and they've about reasoned God and His Word and they've decided that most all that He said, that we have in writing as to the red writing, which is suppose to be the words of Jesus, they have decided that all He said that there is very, very little of it that has to do with Him. So they're going to do away with that, and gradually you're being turned over to a reprobate mind of intellectual philosophy to be doomed and damned, as to make a proselyte out of you. Two-fold more the child of hell, the Bible said, as to your religious inclination. You'd have been better off if you'd been cold. Jesus said, I would that you were hot, or cold. You'd have been better off if you'd been out in the things of the world, didn't know nothing about God. Whereas, you can't do that because you're going to move on the knowledge, because God is going to destroy the world. When the gospel has gone into all the world for a witness, the knowledge of truth comes, that's the end of you. If you don't go on with God then it's nothing but judgments, and heartaches, wrecks and sorrows and diseases, and everything else will befall you. Which is befalling the people. There is not enough, as to room in the prisons for the people that's going there, men and women. There's not enough room in the hospitals, as to the physicians taking care of them. And they've got them like a herd of cattle, running them through, taking their money. And the Bible said all these things come upon you because you serve not the Lord thy God with joyfulness of heart. He said you honor me and do the things I tell you and I'll take sickness out of the midst of you for I am the Lord God that forgiveth all thine iniquities and healeth all of thy diseases. I'm the same; I change not. So we see, as many things that we said concerning the change tonight that something is happening. Something is happening. Isn't that true? It's true. It's like the little lady that's standing here. There's a real young girl standing here and this thing tears her all to pieces cause don't in her heart she has a real yearning. Easy to discern it when the Spirit is moving. A real yearning to be a Christian. And her bodily being has pulled at her so much, as with the other girls, until she's tried to flow with them and she doesn't flow to good. She just puts it all out until she gets back in the presence of Almighty God and the things of God, and then the truth begins to call. Don't ever smother that out, young lady. Don't ever do that because that's death. Not only in trespasses and sin but cutting the root to be cut off from God forever, because most likely that's an elect call. If it's an elect call it'll get you. It'll get you. God wants you because you are eternal. You have election. Paul preached and the Bible said, as many as were ordained unto eternal life, as to election, believed. Those that were foreordained. The rest did not. Because all men have not faith, as to the faith of Christ by which we're sanctified. All right. So we're here trying to close out. Just waiting a few minutes to make sure your hearts are clear and then we're going to let you go back to the natural side of life. While you have a few minutes in His presence and His Spirit, rejoice for the Bible says there are riches, righteousness, life, glory and splendor, and magnificence in His presence because He is the illumination of life and the jubilance of all things. And when the sun goes down it's night. Jesus said, I'm the light of the world. You're the light of the world. Work while the grace is here, as to the light of the world, for soon the darkness comes, as to the intellectual bias, the boycotting, and you can't work, because Antichrist won't let you work the things of God. And already the darkness is setting in. Someone would say, Well, how do you know, Brother Pike? Because they're Jim Jones-ing us. They're calling us all kind of things. That is, not me, but the church, the true church, and they're trying to stamp it out. See? That's Antichrist's intellectual concept of the rudeness toward God. That's the darkness coming that's try to stop you from working the works of God, to be about your Father's business. God bless you. I love you. You're very precious to me. Many of you are my children in the Lord. And Paul said, I'm jealous over you, even with a godly jealousy because I seek to present you unto Christ as a virgin, and that without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. And present you, not partially. He said, Let us go on to a full reward and see that we lose not that for which we have wrought, but I seek to present you body, soul and spirit, blameless before Almighty God. So you do your best to be clean and pure for He's called you to virtue and to glory. And if you'll come to the virtue it'll be great in your life. The little woman touched the hem of His garment and virtue went out of His body and healed the little woman. The church today, Brother Dale, is almost powerless because they don't have any virtue. They interwoven themselves so much with the world. Dottie Rambo dying. The famous song writer, as in the world of music, when it comes to the gospel. Written some of the most beautiful things in the world. Left off with her God experience, turned to the world. I last saw her picture, as to an advertisement in the papers, Atlanta papers, painted up to a horrible, hideous appearance. Left the real sweetness of God, beautifying the meek with salvation, now she's in pain, having had nine operations on her back. She's in the hospital in Nashville right now. Having to sell their fine home. Misery day and night. Pain day and night. Buck, her husband, Buck Rambo said, I watch her body as it deteriorates, as she cries and screams with pain. No relief. Five years, he said, I've seen it as she's been tormented. And at last she says, Buck, pray that I'll die. Said, Ask all the saints of God to pray that I'll die. Said, Buck, where is the church? Where is the church? They sent for prayer all around the different places. Six hundred and something ministers at one time. Two hundred and fifty people, or friends. She said, Where is the church? What is it? See? They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. And if they pray, if the people have committed any sin it shall be forgiven. And now she's says, where is the church? and yet she's been to hundreds of churches. Some of the greatest singers that ever sang a song. Some of the most popular. Sang before of multiplies tens of thousands yonder on the Washington Square at the meeting, Washington for Jesus. So that's the reward. The body becomes a prison and those nerves that were so exciting and so exhilarating all of a sudden there's a cut and there's a bruise and there's a break and you wish those nerves weren't there. As a matter of fact, sometimes the doctors kills them. They torment the life out of you and instead of recording the life, as to the mercies of God through the inspiration you start recording that misery of the ulcer of the belly, or that heart attack, or that smothering when you can't breathe, or that hideous thing, as to the terror as your eyes begin to grow dim. And especially coming on down as when the death angle comes around and begins to choke the life out of you, and the pretty face that you thought you had is not important anymore. And the education that you thought made you supreme to others isn't important anymore. And, as Solomon said, everything is left to a fool then, though you might have gotten it by wisdom, because where you're going you can't use it. For you brought nothing into the world; it's for sure you are going to take nothing out of it. The body is the Lord's. Glorify God in your body. Sow the righteous seeds for the reaping that's coming to everybody, the writer said. All right. With your hands lifted up and your eyes closed magnify God in your heart and let's find the truth, folks. It'll make you free. Just to know it. Let's sing this little chorus. A little thing, or song, that we sing so often. (Singing) Once again. While we're singing call upon the name of the Lord for the Bible said, it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And the man down on the Street called Straight said, Paul, be baptized, wash away your sins calling on the name of the Lord, for Jesus said, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not he shall be damned. (Singing) We're going to sing it one more time. Let's sing it again. (Singing) I'm going to ask Brother Hollis to come up and dismiss us if he will. And while Brother Braxter is coming to dismiss us lift your hands, close your eyes, praise the Lord. Invite Him into your heart because the world has shut Him out. Seeking a place He came in a manger. And I said, Lord, why a manger? Why did you come in a manger? He said, Son, you're in the beast realm. You're fallen as all the others. In Adam they all die as beast in a beast realm. I come in the likeness of the beast image and I had to come in the stable because that's where they all are. But, He said, I didn't stay there, and neither do you have to stay there. Said, I rose up. I walked all the way to the Mount of Transfiguration conforming to the will of My Father, and stood in glory back to where Adam was before his fall and in the glorified image in which he was made. Standing between Moses and Elijah.....(Begin tape three, side one.).....when I left this old beast world of the pigs and the dogs. I said the other night, raised up in the chicken yard, but when this little eagle, as the story goes, heard the scream of the mother eagle it lifted it's little wings and all of a sudden it found out it was airborne, that it didn't belong to the stable. Folks, and some of you are beginning to lift your wings. You're beginning to be moved and that Spirit is beginning to move upon you as was with Samson when he got so old. The prophecies had gone forth on him. The mother has been indoctrinated. That super child is coming. The Bible said after awhile as you begin to grow, as Jesus did in favor with man and God, said, the mighty Spirit of God began to move him. And then he began to do great feats. And all of a sudden, it was revealed to him. He was that great wonderful super strength. Not like others. Could slay a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass. Could grab a lion when it run out at him. I've been there to that place, at (?). I've been there where that lion ran out. And when it ran out said he picked him up like you would a little old baby goat that's called a kid and said, just rent it like you would a kid. (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord