Why Be Like Jesus

...And the things on my mind that I just mentioned this morning to somebody, a group of the Brethren just talking just a little bit. I was trying to express to them how that a man and a woman__ You know, in this world people don't understand. I don't understand myself unless the Lord makes me to understand. And the Bible said no man can receive anything save it be given him of the Lord. And I think a lot of times when I'm sitting around, being a preach or a minister, I think maybe a little different from some people. And maybe not so much as one might think. Some people think along the same line, but I think about people, you know, people as a whole. And people as a whole, they are fascinating, very intriguing just to consider people, and to think on people. And there is nothing as phenomenal as people, not out of all the creation of God. Great mighty things, species of the heavens, and of the earth, and of the sea, and some things, like the great whale of about ninety tons, and yet they are not as fascinating as people. There is nothing like people. And the reason for that is because there is nothing that was made in the image of God and after the likeness of God, or there is nothing, that is outside of people, and there is nothing that possesses the potentiality of a human being. There is no like, not in the earth. No where in the universe is there a like of that which possesses the potentiality of a human being. Not even the angels in heaven possess the potentiality of a human being, and yet, I remember reading a little poem one time. It was about an auction, and they were auctioning off things and here the little poem was about auctioning off a violin. I'm sure you must have read it or heard of it, but anyway while it was being auctioned off the auctioneer was saying thus and thus and thus and x amount of dollars, and going, going, and real cheap, real cheap. Someone was fixing to get the violin, because as he was saying, going, going, and you know, they say gone. It was said about that time some man came along and picked up the violin. And he begin to mess with the strings a little and lay the bow to it, and begin to play. And said it was so beautiful, so fantastically beautiful that all of a sudden the price of the violin went up, and up, and up. You know, they've got what they call the Stradivarius violin. I remember when Sister Betty and I were over in Canada, and there, I believe, it was Jack Benny, the world comedian, so famous, came all the way, I believe, into Canada, that area, to try to buy this Stradivarius, because they are very rare, and he was willing to pay such a tremendous amount of money. But anyway, as to the little story as to playing the violin, just before it went off cheap something happened. And you know, many a person, as to like the violin, has really been sold cheap. They've really gone down the drain cheap. Their lives never did amount to anything, because the bow had never been laid across the strings of their heart, as to their worth and their potentiality. And so it's thrown in a corner, it's gone. It doesn't amount to much. I was telling some Brethren this morning one or two things, just discussing one or two things with them, and being a minister I look and I see these things. I see lives, and I see how they throw their lives to the wind for the gullible desires of the flesh, the lust of the flesh, and I see how that their heart, their mind, their spirit is so engrossed in the beggarly elements of the world, because that's what the overseer of the church called it. Paul, the apostle, beggarly elements of the world. And they are so in bondage to the little old human senses that exhilarates their flesh, as to a state of ecstasy and satisfaction of union one with another, or, and they forget the purpose of life, and forsake the way of God, as to what is meant, as to a satisfaction and purpose, as to multiply and replenish the earth. And then I see their eyes, as to eyes loom out at things, and their so enticed with automobiles and houses and food and all kind of things. And then their human senses, as a whole are carried away with nothing but a few reacting nerves that strikes a composition of electrons, that's called human flesh. And of course, the exhilaration of these things is there to sustain natural life, to inspire natural life through ball playing and through frolic, and through passions, and through all these things, and I look at them. They are so pitiful, and I see that, and I think that even men that are suppose to be great men, and women that are suppose to be great women, and they are literally swallowed up, and that's all they are. That's all they are as to their potential. As to their world and way of life that's all they are. It's the satisfaction of drink, or it's the satisfaction of whatever stimulates, and quickens that body, and that's all they are. And I think how pitiful to think that they would sell their birthright for the beggarly elements of the world, like Judas; thirty pieces of silver. And someone perhaps would say, What do you mean, Brother Pike, sell out birthright? Perhaps you are not aware of it, but when you do that you throw your birthright away. You have a birthright given to you in Christ Jesus as the first born. And that birthright that is given to you is a birthright of eternal life, eternal riches, of eternal existence, of eternal splendor and magnificence, and importance to kingship. See? So this birthright you just throw away for a few beggarly elements of the world, as to an education, putting your eyes out, and messing around with books and the old tree of knowledge, and college and school, and even learning and never getting any real good understanding. The Bible said never coming to the knowledge of the truth, in that science, knowledge falsely so-called, really amounts to nothing. Or exercising the body, as to you potentiality, and muscular power, you know, or as to your figurine, as we would say. And always, as like I say, it would be better maybe if man didn't have a mirror. You know, he's always admiring his face, or she's always admiring her face, or something all the time, as pertaining to the flesh, and all the endeavors is to catch people's attention to allure and entice, and if not, then whoever, as to the opposite sex is catching, alluring, and enticing, anointed of the devil, because he savors the things that be of the flesh. And on and on they go, you know, to their destruction, and all that they do is built around them and their thinking, and their way of life, and their human desire, and their ego, and all that they project is the devil is using their instrumentality of life that it might capture admiration, whether it be through money, whatever it might be. I look at it as a minister, and I think, My! They sold out cheap. They sold out cheap. A few more days and they'll wither up like a prune, and they'll throw them in the hole and throw the dirt in on them. That's all. Out of their greatest stride of life and their ambition, all of a sudden they're thrown in a hole, and they are no more. And they spent their whole life in lust, covetousness, and desires of the things of the world. All of their strength, all of their youth, all of their ambition, knowing that they were just going out all the time. It's like a woman I heard of, I believe today. She's decided to go to some rehabilitation center. For years she's thrown her life away as a harlot. She has thrown her entire life away as a drunkard. And now that she has reached a place to where her life style must change, because of the energy being gone, and the life being gone, and the appearance being gone to some degree, now, she has to set down to think it over and decides that she wants another way of life. Folks, that's unreal. You know, I said the other day, What does God think about a person like that when He commanded that you remember your creator in the days of your youth when the evil days, as to judgment draw not nigh when you turn and look, and say, Hey! This thing didn't work out like I thought it was suppose to, you know, and I have no pleasure in all my sowing. All my sowing is nothing but corruption and death, nothing but vanity, and I've let pride and haughtiness, and enticement and lust of my eyes, and desire of my heart wreck me. Well, anyway, what I'm trying to say is that you sell out might cheap, folks. To be born again, Jesus said, unless you are born again you can't even see the Kingdom of Heaven, because God is a spirit, and you have to leave that old fleshly body, mortify the deeds of the body, do away with the flesh and these kind of things to be able to come into this new wonderful thing of God. And though it appears that it is the second man, and it is the second man Adam from heaven, but though it appears to be the second man, in that you are born again; yet really, it all reality, it is still the firstborn that get's the birthright. And that is Jesus, as to the preeminence. Before the world ever was it was given to you in Him. That is it was given to us in Christ. Or that is, what God wanted us to be He made Christ to be that before the world ever was. And as a spiritual being, quickening spirit, Christ was there with Him. And that was me, and that was you that loved the Lord, and you that are sons and daughters of God. And you were made perfect, everything just right, see? And as to the others, they were also there, as to a predestination, but not in christ. As to Lucifer the Bible said when God made him He made all of his pipes perfect. That is, the interiors, as we say, of him, and made him upright, and he was one of the most, he was the most beautiful tree in the Garden, as to those things. But you, as to what He made you, He saw you fall. He saw you, as in Adam all die. He saw you as though you were made so beautiful. Adam, being head of that beast, being made as to that thing of Lucifer, he was made so beautiful and everything was so perfect, but he threw it away as through the weakness of the flesh, as to the lust of the flesh, and there he became the beast, and a generation of vipers, as to them that came from the loins of Adam as in Eve being the mother of all living, and as so unto death. So there you were and there you are today still as God saw you in the foreknowledge that you would fall from the lofty, wonderful illumination of the glory of God, that even in this day it's still present as to the extent that God has not yet finished the scope of the foreknowledge, as to the end of your life, mine, and others, as to the end of the reproduction of humanity. Still seeing you as you bobble along, and doing these things, knowing that you are going to continue on with these things in spite of the fact that it's not the minister speaking to you, but God within His temple speaking to you, constantly speaking all over the world, and beckoning. And whereas the Bible said, and wisdom standeth at the gate and beckons unto the simple saying, Turn in hither, and they will not. And then in the day of their calamity wisdom said, I will laugh at you and I will mock when your fear cometh, and you will look for me in a time that you will need me, but you will not be able to find me, because it won't be there. And so then, we look at these things and we suddenly realize that you were there, I was there, or we were there, and summoned to the sad, sad, situation in the end, as to Paul preaching to those people saying, And they that were ordained unto eternal life they believed and the rest did not. But ungodly men some of them are, the Bible said, And these turning the grace of God unto lasciviousness, denying the only Lord God that made them. And here we are in that grace period. Here we are, folks. And sure enough you're denying that God, as to the Word, as to the Spirit, as to the conformity, as to the self-denial. Brother Taylor said he like that song because it was something as to a conformity of a self-denial toward the image of our God. And someone would say, Well, to be like Jesus, to be like Jesus. Brother Taylor sings to be like Jesus, on earth I long to be like Him, but you know, I say a movie star, and I know a singer, and a president, and a king, and a queen, and I know of someone that I read about in this True Love magazine that just swept me away. And I know of a picture I saw, and I know the singer, and I know the artist, and I've got it on the front of the album, and I've got it pasted up, and I've got it in my mind, and I know of all this king of thing, you know. But, to be like Jesus, to be like Jesus, on earth I long to be like Him. From Bethlehem's manger there came forth a stranger, on earth I long to be like Him. Why would you want to be like Him, somebody says. when you can just gullibly swallow up everything in the world, you can do all that you want to it the world? Why be like Him? You know, He was old fashioned. He wasn't exciting. He didn't do anything. He killed out His potentiality, as to that which related to the world and put it down, and took it to the cross and crucified it. Why do you want to do that when we are alive and we're exuberant, and we are filled with the excitements of life? Why do that? Well, first of all, because your life isn't going to last. You've just got a breath of life, as I said the other night, and you're just made for the worm bait. As a matter-of-fact, you are a worm, and you'll join the worms. Whereas, it was said, Jacob, thy worm, I will help thee, the fallen ones, that is to the serpent, the snake, he's called a worm by God. And he devours everything. I will restore what the canker worm has eaten, the years that the locust has consumed, and all these things I will restore, saith the Lord, because they're just sweeping the land with their crazy evil doings, and they are devouring everything decent, or virtuous, or whatever. Satan, the old worm, is devouring everything that pertains to the (?) of life. But on the other hand, why do I want to be like Jesus? First of all, in Jesus there is perfect life. There is eternal life; there is perfect life. To be like Jesus, as to God making Him what He wanted me to be, and Him becoming me in death that I might become Him in life. To be like Jesus, first of all I become eternal in my life. To be like Jesus, second, I take on the body, as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and I become eternal in this body with the radiance, as to the illumination, of the noon day, outshining the brightness of the sun with radiance and beauty and charms that are godly that so far surpasses the deepest imagination of mankind until he never even gets a glimpse of it. Never, he gets it. Never does he get the glimpse of it. And then, to be like Jesus I get eternal riches, and to be like Jesus I have eternal power, and majesty, and authority to rule the nations with a rod of iron, and to break them like someone with pottery, just to break them into shivers. To be like Jesus these many, multiplied, wonderful things, as streets of gold, and gates of pearl, and a throne that is so beautiful. The Bible describes overcoming and sitting down in the Throne with Him where this wonderful, beautiful array of the rainbow and the interwoven conglomeration of colors fill the city, as to the stones of fire, and as to the beauty that is indescribable. See? to be like Jesus. Why does God want me to be like Jesus? Because He said, here is the heavenly treasure. Would you like to have this in your earthen vessels? To receive Christ, Paul said, And we have this heavenly treasure, even Christ within our fleshly, earthen vessels. And with submission, with conformity, as to surrender, as to desire, as to delight ourself in him. The desires of our hearts comes. As a man thinketh in His heart so he is. And then this great wonderful potentiality of God, even God, to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world back to himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. And that is to say, not as a fragmental thing, but God in His fullness. And here I now have God, the heavenly treasure, which out of God emanates all things, as to the diamonds, the pearls, the jewels, the splendor even of this reflection that is called a terrestrial glory. And now on the inside I am a new man. And this outside creature (It's called a creature.) shall be delivered from the bondage of this corruption that is unto death, unto the glorious liberties of the Sons of God, which means freedom without any harassment, or any alluring, or any enticement, or anything that draws me to the tangible side of life, as to make me a child of bondage by the old tree of knowledge as to an interwoven intellect that is in there that fastens me down like a gravitational power that I cannot escape. So then, Jesus on the inside, and my cup is filled up and overflowing that this life of Christ Jesus may be made manifest in my mortal genes. And we say Christ, we're talking about riches and splendor and strength and magnificence, and beauty and radiance and glory Celestial, that there is no way to ever comprehend it except through the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ comprehended it, and thus it is one with it. Whatever you comprehend in life that's what you are. You can comprehend and study, whether you study mathematics, or whether you study chemistry, or whatever you might study, you know, and you comprehend, and you comprehend, and you comprehend. You study the earth as a geologist. You study the earth and finally you comprehend and comprehend and comprehend the depths until you know that it is a ball of fire in the heart of the earth, and then there is nickel, and there is rock, and there is one level and one layer, and then you start comprehending your surroundings, and you suddenly realize there is California, and there is Florida, and there is the land, the Holy Land, and there is Germany, and all these kind of things, see? And you comprehend the heights and you start comprehending until you finally comprehend the atmosphere, the hemisphere, the stratosphere, and go right on up into the heavenlies, you know, as to Jupiter and Pluto, right on into that until you comprehend and you comprehend. That's what you are. See? And in Christ, Christ comprehended God, thus He became one with God. And now though I can't do that, because I am a mortal being, I have no ability to do that because of my sins, though in Adam I would have, as to the image that was lost. Being that image as in the beginning, I could do that. See? But because of being fallen to the condition and the place, as to complacency of life, and compromise of life, to compromise here, see? I find myself, I find myself helpless, and I can't do anything. But through Christ who died for me, who restored all this, gave this back to me, brought me back to this wonderful place of living, and now I am as I was in my originality, and I can say to lying vanity, whether it be sickness, whether be problems, whether it be aging, or whether it be death, or whatever, I can say, You are a lying vanity. It wasn't so in the beginning. I'm what that was as to what God made me, and in the beginning so am I. Forever I am what I am as to a full potentiality, of eternal exuberance, and being, by the grace of God. Paul said I am what I am by the grace of God, which means by the grace of God he has made me this wonderful thing to where it's not I that liveth by Christ that liveth within me, and now the life I now live I live by the Son of God, and that that I was is dead, as to the fall, and that that I was as to the beginning, as in the origin, given to me in Christ before the world was, now it's made manifest and the image that in which Adam was made that was lost, as to the sonship, now it's restored and I am back to my originality, which means I comprehend God, for it's not I that liveth by Christ. And in comprehending God, according to the measure that I allow myself to comprehend God, as to give myself thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold, so am I in Christ. As He is so am I. Of His fullness we have received, the Bible said. And on and on we could go, but seeing this wonderful thing and then I think, But Esau sold out so cheap for a mess of pottage. A little mess of pottage because he was on his belly and his belly craved it of him, showing that he was the worm, God having put him on the belly because of the fall, took them away from that life, as in His presence there is life, and the Shekinah illumination of that image in which he was made, as to say Adam. It was gone, and so was the Garden, and so was the wonderful, beautiful surroundings and environment, and desires of his heart of that heavenly environment. It was all gone. Your thoughts create your environment, and it determines your future, it determines your life, and the tongue, if it is a wholesome tongue, it is a tree of life. If not, the Bible said, it is a little member that's set on fire by the course of hell, and no man can tame it. So, as to the tongue of the Lord Jesus, as to the words of the Lord Jesus, I am now bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And even though you cannot see it, you see my faltering stumbling, staggering ways, because you know me after the surveillance of your own natural observation and comprehension. And thus you see me as to your little old human senses, you know, and you judge me to be so, but folks, I excel your human senses. I'm not even in the radius, or the realm where you dwell to think like that. See? But we are they that dwell in heaven, and Lucifer cannot even come near our dwelling. He is darkness, and we are light, and God has delivered us from the powers of darkness and translated us into the marvelous kingdom of light, in that the Kingdom of God is here ever since Calvary, and now we're translated to the extent that he that was stronger than we, in that the man is a little lower than the angles in his strength, now Christ within us makes us stronger than Lucifer and God hath delivered us from Satan who was stronger than we. So, here we are wholesome children of God, and we are already a finished product. Then what is my potentiality? My potentiality is, as He is so am I in Him. That is, my potentiality is Christ. As to whatever I allow as to the membership of the body, being baptized into this membership by the life of the body, as my life holds to arms and my arm becomes a part of my body because of the life that flows from my body into my arm, so is it with Christ. I have been baptized into that body, and whatever I am I am by the grace of God, and that as to go on to a full reward, or go on to a full measure. Why should I be like Jesus? To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus, on earth I long to be like Him, for from Bethlehem's manger came forth a stranger, on earth I long to be like Him. You know, it's like God. He's calling you, and then when someone gets ready, as we say, in the natural to be a prince, or to take the place of the king, or to take the place of a queen, (Frank mentioned kings today.) then they start grooming them. Grooming them. We sing the song, We're Waiting For The Bridegroom To Come. We're waiting for the bridegroom to come. See? And God is grooming you to be the king and the prince of all of life. I am the prince of life. I have come that you might have life, and that you might have life more abundantly. But I'm just going to say this right here, and change the order of the service. See? The one thing, folks, that we need to remember is that death is not of God. Sorrow is not of God. Poverty is not of God. Heartaches is not of God. That youthful face of expression, that youthful form that you have, whether man or woman, that youthful exuberance, in that the woman's hair, her glory is her hair and she's always working with it, you know, and the man is his strength. You know, that is his glory. And the man made for the glory of God, and the woman for the glory of man and one star differeth in glory from another. We said one day maybe we'll be able to bring out what that actually has to do with what glory is. One night we wanted to do that and we didn't get to do it. See? But I'm just saying this: Our ordination is unto, not a diminishing terrestrial glory, as unto death, but an excelling, exceeding, buoyant thing that is rising to the greatest heights. See? Jesus took the deepest depths of our sorrow going into the chambers of hell. Now, we take the greatest heights, as to the ascension, for whereas He was delivered for our offenses, as to go to Calvary and be smitten, and down, down, down to the deepest depths of God's wrath as a consuming fire. But you don't find anywhere that the Bible speaks of that when He was raised again for our justification, as to now we are Him that raised from the dead, delivered for offenses as to be numbered with Him, that He took our death, our punishment and our sorrow when God ended that that Satan caused with that mind of unbelief and contrariness and lust, gullible desires, but when He comes from the grave it's up, up, up. It's the ascension, up. Always upward, always upward. All the promises of God are not yea and amen, but yea, yea to the glory of God working within us, Paul said. How great is this, for God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we can ask and think, according to the glory of this magnificent heavenly treasure within the earthen vessels. Unto God be the glory, as the Bible said, and able to do abundantly more than we could ever think through this Christ that worketh within us. As the little seed, inside of the seed is the potentiality, and the little crust is hard, as we say. We are hardened by sin, but when it goes into the ground the nurture, as to the admonition, or the admonishing of God, and the first news you know that little old veil is rent in twain, and Calvary has done it's job, and that little thing begins to push forth, and it pushes it's way out of this old body of dust that we are made of and then there is a little sign of life. And sure enough people begin to see it, and then we grow bigger, and we grow greater, and we grow mightier, filled with the life of God, see? until we bring forth a beautiful harvest of that potentiality that was just a tiny little seed, and than we pick up the ear of corn, or the grains, and there's just multiplied grains on there, because we become exceedingly great, rich, according to whatever. But we can just be a nubbin, or that's what the farmers used to call it, or we can just mess a round and die and rot in the ground, and (Begin tape one, side two.)...see? Especially if it be that the little seed has a worm on the inside of it. We found that many times as a boy planting a crop. So, I'm just saying, I remember how__ I related this too you. How exciting it was to me as a little boy out planting my pop corn, and we had what we called Indian Pop Corn, and it all colors. I always liked all colors. And I'd drop it in there and when my little old harvest would come along close to my Grandpa's patch, you know, I'd look and I'd have all kind of corn, and one ear would have all kind of colors, and I thought, man, I stood way up tall above my Grand Daddy with my little ear of corn, because he just had that plain old corn, you know. I didn't rally understand, but nevertheless that's the excitement of it. You know, there has been someone wrote a song that said, On your knees you are taller than trees. And folks, why should I be like Jesus? Why should I be like Jesus? On earth, not in heaven, but on earth, I long to be like Him. For if I suffer with Him in my earthly episode of life, in my natural stride of life, if I number with Him and I suffer with Him, He said, He that suffers with Me shall also reign with Me. And He said, Equip your minds, or selves, with a mind to suffer, and mortify the deeds of the flesh, and withdraw from the world, and deny yourself, and do away with this old shell and burst this thing, crack this thing open, and let the potentiality of life roll out to your beauty and your glory, as to a Celestial world. For you are not of this world, Jesus said, even as I'm not of this world. If you was of the world would the world persecute us? Doesn't the world love it's own? But you are not of this world. There are people that are of this world. There is Esau, and God has given them the riches, and the splendor, and the magnificence to achieve all they want to in this life. They are glamorous, they glow. David of old said, My feet almost slipped when I considered this. He said, For here I am chasing all the day long and I have nothing but problems, and he said, I considered the wicked and they are spreading themselves like a green bay tree. There are no bans in their death, their youth, as to their children. David said they dance and they are full and they have a good time, and said, they don't have troubles, complex of life, perplexity of situation. He said, And I almost judged in my heart that I was wrong for following God. He said, But when God took me to the sanctuary, or the house of God and He made me to know their end, and that they are flourishing, and their desire is that their names live forever. All of a sudden I saw them cut down and wither up. And they were no more, and no more remembrance of the wicked. And then I took courage. I knew then, you know, as David said, I am on the right trail. I'm on the right trail. Folks, there is a reward for this thing of self-denial. There is a reward for this thing of serving Almighty God. There is a great reward, and if you blind yourself, or allow yourself to be blinded, and you go down this trail of a point of no return, reaching that, suddenly you wake up and say, My God! what a fool of fools I have been. What did I lose? What did I give away? Where is this great treasure that I was suppose to have? Made in the image of God and give yourself to a devil to where Almighty God has to look and say, I have chosen twelve; one of you is a devil. Or as it was to Peter, Get thee behind me Satan. He was only speaking as to a potentiality there, because he had never died for the remission of Peter's sin as to make manifest in his mortal body as to what had been given him as a heavenly treasure, being Christ before the world ever was, as the foreknowledge of God. But folks, we're not like that. See? We have this thing available. It's already here. The Kingdom of God is already here, and Paul said, Say not in your heart who shall go down into the earth to bring it up, or who shall ascend into heaven to bring it down? Said, But it's nigh unto you, even in your heart and in your mouth, that if thou canst believe with thine heart unto this righteousness, as to believe that God hath, for Christ sake, raised him up from the dead for your sake as to salvation. And if you make that confession with your mouth unto salvation, in that He has the high priest of your confession, thou shalt be saved. For it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, and here we are. The Kingdom of God is at hand. And you still go on with your intellectual revelling in the world, preambling through life and the things of God, see? And instead of being anchored and coming to something of Christ, and you wander like a wandering star with no light of your own, and just reflecting, and that's all. You know, even reflecting religious, or blessings from God, religiously, as to the blood being on the Seat of Atonement at this time in that the rain is on the just and unjust, and the blessings are poured out on the tare as well as the wheat under this form. But you still, as the inwardly, interwoven with this darkness, and blinded by the darkness that is within you, as to your ignorance of God. Whereas Paul said, I would not have you ignorant. And you do away with that with this little old worm part of you called the body. And your little old finite mind of the superceding thoughts of education, and the Einsteins of the world, or some kind of be-bop, and entertainment, or exhilaration of flesh, or whatever it might be, because your human senses are excited in a state of ecstasy, as to a terrestrial inspiration of glory sets in there you are. Bonds children. Esau have I hated, but you that have come to the life of Jacob it's a different world altogether. So, I said all of those things just to say this, that I set around as a minister and the way that the mind of God deals with me and the way that I think, and the way these things are seen all day long, like a movie set in there looking and I think, My God! They're selling out cheap. And I say, You don't understand, and then they look at me, you know, we're an ignoramus. We don't understand, to mock me, to mock me. But if you understand, or if you have understood why do you do it? You mean you understand that and you still do it? That couldn't be. Folks, that couldn't be. That's not possible. That's impossible. There is no way that you can do that. The Bible, even the Scriptures that cannot be broken emphatically states that once, just one time of seeing this pearl of great price you'll forfeit everything, as to your rights to life and you'll sell all that you've got and you'll give everything you've got to obtain this one pearl of great price, because why not? To be like Jesus, why should I be like Jesus. See? To give to, why? See, because everything that everybody wants, including the devil, it's already in Christ. It's already there and you're just running after the fragments and the crumbs. So, you tell me you've seen it. Somebody said, But, Brother Pike, I did. I heard what you said. I know you did, but having ears to hear you didn't hear. Having eyes you didn't see lest anytime you should see your heart would convert and you'd sell all you had. So then, that's the way it is, folks. And yet if I use that terms, as I said up here in the office a little earlier today, people are very hostile, and they are very mocking, and I'm reluctant, and I try to find another word. But when I really get through I just say, You just don't understand. You just don't understand. Jesus said, Your hearts, have you hardened your hearts, you know, to self discipline, or to concede. You know, a conceded attitude that you go to seed on the thing. And say, Well, I'm satisfied with this thing. This is it. This is the way it's got to be. So, you know, and with that hardening your heart, because that is a set principle of life that is impenetrable, as to God, not because He cannot break it, but because He has allowed you your sovereignty, and thus you are. You are self made, as to self will, and that's what it is. All right. So then, we just said those few little things by way of exhortation this morning to ask you what have you done with your life. They said, Barabbas, we'll take him. So, that's your image. That's your life. That's your projection. That's your idol. That's your God, and as to your thinking and desire it transformates you into that image, whether it is an idol of Hollywood, or whatever it might be, and so you are. And that spirit of him, as to a parasite, entered into you. Moses was the admiration of them that was in his day, and thus it was that the Bible said, And God put the spirit of Moses upon them. And they were prophesying and great things. Jesus is that, we say, as to idolizing, not idolizing because an idol He is not, but as to yours an idol, but mine as a living God, as to the object of worship. And He is that which you would term as the idolization of my heart. And so, in believing in Him, and loving Him, and learning with Him, and desiring Him, then I'm transformating into what Jesus is, as to the potentiality, because that's what I am in the mind and foreknowledge of God, as to what He has given me as to God through Christ, as to I'm partakers of the divine nature of Jesus Christ. So now I have His nature, then I have to come out as His body. If it be the apple nature thus will be the end of it, and as to the image of it, as to the harvest so is the seed as to the planting. And here I am. I was planted that in the foreknowledge of God as the seed of righteousness as unto God, Him being my righteousness, as unto Him being my praise and my desire, and Him being my glory. And thus I am and ten million people can't change it with their thoughts of contrariness, of jealousy, of hatred, of evil surmising. When they finish all of their life of that against me I'm still just exactly what I was in His foreknowledge. So, as He is so am I in Him. of His fullness have I received. So then, that means that I already am what I am by the grace of God, though you cannot see it because your eyes are beholden, and you cannot see it. But there is one thing about it, it's still there. It's still there and death is gone forever. And death is no more mine enemy, because I have defeated my enemy through Calvary. Poverty, sickness, all of these things are no more my enemy. Lying vanities and vanities of vanities, and all is vanity, but that's gone. It's not in my world. It's not in my heart; it's not in my mind. See? Poverty, all these things are gone forever because I'm not of this world, but I've been translated out of this world of the kingdom of your intellectual darkness, and your reasoning and suspicion against me. And I am now in the world of light in the mind of Christ that you cannot even see, let alone get near me as to where I dwell in Christ Jesus. So, someone would say, Brother Pike, do you mean to tell me that you say that of yourself? No. I don't say that of myself. He said it would not be you speaking but Christ speaking. God speaking in my behalf; He's the one that testifies to you of what I am. He's the one that made me what I am. He is the one that you resent and find fault with as to being repulsive, whether it's me or whoever that's in that kind of condition, the old bond's child as of the flesh wrestling in it's evil surmising mind against the free child. And it is my testimony, as to my confession of the Word through me as to what I've always been. I've always been. In the loins of my Heavenly Father I've always been one with my Heavenly Father. I will always be one with my Heavenly Father, and my little transitional stride through earth, as to this episode of life, I'm just passing through the chambers of despair, as to my training, as to my recognition, as to tell you about Jesus. And as it was with Jesus they didn't understand Him because they said, You being a man make yourself God. Let's give the Lord a hand. But nevertheless, Jesus said, You are God's, you shall die like men from the lack of knowledge. And when you say knowledge you are speaking of the mind of Christ, not science falsely so-called, as to the old tree of knowledge. So, this wonderful, charitable edification, as to the super of the Lord, then are we partakers as to eat His flesh and to drink His blood. Many sleep, and many are feeble among you because they discern not the Lord's body. But we are the Lord's body, members in particular, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And we're able to discern that, and because of that we take faith in God, and thus we manifest, or the potentialities of God are made manifest in us, as to the refurbishing, furbishing and refurbishing unto the ultimatum of the grand finale of God, as to be changed into the very image. That is to say, not that we are, are as of not that but because we are already sons of God, then in His foreknowledge we ae already finished products, even to the change. And if I can believe, even though you still behold the image as of the dust, if I can believe then ever what I believe, as to what I am in Him, which is the fullness of Christ, in Christ Jesus through the knowledge of God, as to whatever I allow then the powers of that come into my heart, and thus I enjoy it as to whatever measure of health I can believe for, whatever I can believe for as to His knowledge, whatever I can believe for as to whatever He is, because as it is put as to something concerning an escrow, or as it would be put, as we would say, This man laid up much for his child, but his child is under the tutors. Paul said, Differ in nothing from the servants that look after him until the time of the Bar Mitzvah, as to that of the change, the adoption, or coming into sonship as with God. Then when this time comes he can get all that belongs to him, even as a child we're caught up to the throne to rule with a rod of iron. But with you and I, see? It's like that child. If those guardians are there, if that child needs shoes, if he needs clothing, if he needs something, then you can just get a little on the side and say, We've got to have five hundred dollars up front. And so you go into his treasure, and that's the way it is. Whatever we can believe for it's all there, as to the complete image of Christ. And such are we, as He is. So then, in that we can just keep on until we make the whole thing manifest. For there is no time with God. There are no days with God. There are no nights with God. There are no seasons with God, though we refer to seasons of refreshing. But with God it's that one eternal forever that was, as to what we have always been in Christ, and was as to what you call in the beginning. That is the beginning of mankind, the beginning of the act of creation since there is no beginning nor ending with God. And then here we are. See? As we was, so are we. We've never changed. Does a son of God change? Can the leopard change his spot? Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Then they that are custom to do evil shall do good. And they that are accustom to do good shall do evil. Never can be; there is no way. See? There is no way. There is no way. So we are in the Lord Jesus. We are in the Lord Jesus. As of this wonderful way of life so are we. Let's stand together. Why should I be like Jesus. On earth I long to be like Him. I want to be like Christ. The reward is great. The potentiality is great, but you've out reasoned your own blessings and treasures that belong to you. You've out reasoned the hand and mind that handed them to you. You've out reasoned God, as to your own sorrow, limiting the Holy One, and then having your understanding darkened. And thus the ignorance of that intellectual brilliance of self-esteem has brought you to thus, and the potentiality as to Godship of your greatness cannot be seen. You've fallen into the darkness, and you've done away with the potentiality, as to life, as to the seed, to become the great and the mighty oneness with God, to own, to have, to hold, all things and that eternally. So, the eyes of your understanding have been blinded that you cannot comprehend this understanding of the great mind of God. When good cometh you shall never see good, nor the gates of pearl, nor heaven, nor anything, nor the light, because you are creatures of darkness. Predestinated unto condemnation because of what God foresaw of the foolishness of your life, and your human reasoning. That's why He said don't lean to your own understanding. I see people getting things, reflecting, and the whole time that they are reflecting they're getting things, and sure enough they are putting some things together intellectually speaking. Like one brother was saying, from a geographic stand point, there is what is called international geographics. We call it geography, or you know, as to properties and lands and positions. And you realize it's a reflection; nothing but a reflection. I've said this so many times, look in the mirror, and there is the fellow that's contrary to you though he looks just like you, but he is exactly a reflection. And he is exactly the opposite of everything that you stand for. As to your right hand, he'll raise his left. As to closing your right eye, he'll close his left. As to everything that you do he'll do just exactly contrary. See? Because that's what you are in your first birth. That's what you are if you're not a child of God, and if you're not the true image of Christ. You are only a reflection of that hidden inner man of that spiritual being, even Christ the wonderful God of heaven, and of earth. Okay, let's sing this together. You are also under the control of Lucifer who is the god of this world, as to a vanity himself. And he takes the children of this world into captivity at his will just through his intellectual indoctrination of that old tree of reasoning as to their human senses, because they are given to those things. (Sings To Be Like Jesus.) Can you sing that? (Continues singing.) Sing that again. (Continues singing.) Why should I be like Jesus? Why should I be like Jesus? (Continues singing.) Sing that with me. (Continues singing.) Can you sing it one more time? (Continues singing and sings Room At The Cross.) The altars are open if you'd like to come. (Continues singing.) You know, whatever you are is being made manifest. Whatever was given to you in the foreknowledge of God before the world ever was is being made manifest. Some of you from the foreknowledge of God was a seed of lust, filled with lust of the eyes and the pride of life and the arrogancy, and the desire of your own human person of self esteem and worldly advantage. As to being made, that is to say your potentiality on the inside has been as of thus, as to your inner make-up, as to your inner man, which must be made manifest in your mortal genes as to the unveiling of that as to whether it be as of a master piece, or the image that was marred by the sculptor that he set aside, as to that that was rejected, even as he showed Jeremiah when He took him down to the potter's house. He can make us unto honor, or whatever. We should be soft and pliable in the hands of the master, otherwise, if we get self-esteemed as to a hardness of our own incentive of life, as to whatever our goal and objectives might be, then we are marred on the wheel, and we're set aside because we're no more as to His goodness, and cannot be molded into His image to the tenderness of the release of that wonderful thing of life. While the branch is yet tender and putting forth it's leaves then you know that summer is nigh, as to the springtime, or the resurrection, as to the life that flows through the little petals that keep them tender. But, as to when the parasites come, and they must be killed out. Then the life withdraws and the hardness comes, and the brittle sets in and then there is nothing left, as to remembrance. From ashes to ashes, or from dust to dust. From the dust thou art and to the dust thou shalt return. So, I said that to say this. Whatever your potentiality is, as to the foreknowledge of God, whatever you have desired, as to your heart, God hath granted it to you as to the desire of your heart, and thus your potentiality, as to the indwelling, as to the inner most, is beginning to be made manifest in the day that we're in, because all of a sudden the day star is springing forth, and He said I'll despise your image in the morning, as to the image of the worm, if that's what it is as to the fall and through the generation of the vipers. And now the day star is breaking forth, as to coming over the horizon, and all of a sudden the night, as to the veil, is beginning to dissipate, and there stands the glorious image. Not as to a shadow of that which is to come, as we say, an allegoric approach, but there stands the brilliance of that which is in detail as to the very image itself, even the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And there stands that great world of beauty, of it's radiance, of it's magnificence, of it's gates of pearls and streets of gold, and of the splendor of that wonderful environment of Almighty God that's so stimulating and exuberant until you feel as though the sun shines within your strength. See? So whatever you are it's being made manifest now, and if it's to the celebrity side of life, as to a Celestial glory, as to an intellectual brilliance, whether educated unto it, or disciplined unto it, as to your own human research, then that's what you are as to the manifestation, as to idolizing something, and going after that which is the fallen or the rejected, or that which is the broken down, or the garbage that's to be taken to the dump to be burned, that's what you are, and the garbage man will be coming by soon to pick you up. But those that are made for that wonderful, wonderful place called the mansions of God. In my Father's house there are many mansions. If it had not been true I wouldn't have told you that it was true if it was not true. And I go to prepare a place, and if I gone to prepare a place I'll come again, though the world doesn't think that. But like the little story that we relate to you so often, the wheels were heard and the horses came and the chariot was ready, because of the hope and the inspiration and the conviction that that prince that had promised her could not lie and would not deceive her, probably was mocked, as the bonds child to the free child. But see? it's just about that time. It's just about that time. So if that be true, though you appear to be a Cinderella with the dish pan hands as the little story states, as to give everybody a start, even as a child, the little fables God allowed to program their heart toward His coming, and toward His greatness, on a level they could understand. See? And reflecting the wonderful heavenly things. And sure enough he's coming. Like He promised: He's coming. And when He comes we're looking for the Bridegroom to come. Are you ready for the Bridegroom to come? See? And with this, with the coming of that, then all of a sudden it's going to be made manifest as to who you are and what you are, because His coming is the bright light of the great wonderful wisdom of God from whom the whole earth fled away when John saw the revealed, as to the revelation. And the Bible said the whole earth fled away. There was found no place for it. The heavens fled away, and everything fled away as to the vanities of life. As to the shadows, when the sun comes up it flees away. And so it fled away. And everything except the very body of the Lord Jesus, members in particular, promised to seeds, as of one and not many, even Christ as to whom the promise was made. And so then, he that dwelleth within that light, and He alone. Thus we are, as to the membership of His body. And thus we are, as to the Christ, Himself. And suddenly He is revealed and the veil of death is swallowed up in victory, as to that dark intellectual veil that fell over man's mind when it was said, In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And a consummation of that wonderful, wonderful power of God, as to the consuming God, for He is a consuming fire. All of a sudden it is gone. The eradication, as to sickness and death and poverty and perversion of appearance, and whatever it might be (Begin tape two, side one.) ... Folks, that's where we're living right now, as to what you refer to as the rapture. I'm referring to it as the Biblical revelation and understanding of Almighty God. For through this understanding, as to coming forth, so came the world and everything emanated from that great light. And with the coming forth again, in that as to the light receding it became a shadow. But now, as to you that are ready for the light and can receive the light, now it can come forth in all of its brilliance and all of its brightness. And you can be now the wonderful illuminated, unveiled masterpiece of Almighty God with these heavenly potentials, and this heavenly treasure made manifest in its full measure in you. And I say that as according to your allowance. Let's sing another little chorus together. (Sings I Will Praise Him.) What is your potentiality? Is it heavenly treasure in earthen vessels? as to the birth of the new man on the inside, as to the breaking forth of the womb of the heart, travailing until Christ be formed within you that you might be that wonderful image of God, as to His body, in which you can be happy knowing there is no harlotry, and that you've been reproduced after His image as a chaste virgin, and that you are ordained to virtue and glory. Having been ordained to that then you have brought forth the image of His glory, as to Him giving you His love and embracing you, as to that mind of purity, that mind of royalty, that mind of faith and power that makes you a great mighty, mighty power throughout the universe, and throughout eternity. So then, let's just lift our hands and let's close our eyes, and let's praise the Lord and remember that though the outer man perish, as to the consummation of the brightness of that coming, in that the Bible said it would destroy that of perversion with the brightness of His coming that's contrarying that mind of godliness. Then let's remember that though the outer man perish, yet the inner man is renewed day by day. (Continues singing.) Don't you believe that? Every stain. (Continues singing.) To love the Lord with all of your heart, and your neighbor as yourself. To love Him is to keep His commandments, to love not in word, but in deed. (Continues singing.) Let's sing that again together. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision. And in the days of the valley of decision the Lord is near. While we praise Him my mind flashed back to the vision that I had. Whereas, in the congregation all of a sudden half of my congregation, my congregation divided, and half of my congregation all of a sudden they were talking with such brilliant, such great understanding, such knowledge, as to superior knowledge of God, and heavenly things. And whatever it would be as to typify worldly activities, and then to my other half they were gobbling garbled of speech, couldn't understand nothing, and I suddenly was made to know that they were beast, that they were beast and did not know it.. They were beast and did not know it, and all of the were in a gobble. I just had to leave off with them. I could not understand them. And folks, though it's hard to understand visions, sometimes God quickens and He reveals. And things seem strange, but yet they are not without significance. There is nothing in the earth, even in a dream or whatever, without significance. And so then, the Lord was simply saying to you and I that while Brother Pike is preaching it is not him speaking but God Almighty. Or while this message is coming forth, as to from Brother Taylor or whoever it might be, that there is a severing, a dividing asunder, and though you are in an intermingle together, as seemingly it would be, whereas here we kind of segregate, as to the man and woman, because it's very typical and symbolic, and as to show the two parts. But in this there is a division. There is a dividing asunder. There are those that are beast that are reflecting this, but not really getting it and not really understanding. For, as to the children of God, they do understand. Though they do not understand, many of them as to being babies, and they are so small in their understanding, and yet they are growing, growing, and some are as to little new borns, some are as yet carried in the womb, as to the birth, and some are as of yet, more than a new born. They are little tots, and some are teenagers, and some are as of another age, as to middle age, and some are as to older people, as to the ancient. Wisdom is with the ancient, and as a person gets farther down the trail and their hair begins to turn white, it indicates that all of the darkness, and the infiltration of life, as to stain the hair, or to stain the body, is beginning to leave them, and they are becoming more like the Ancient of Days whose hair was as white as the wool, as to the change, and becoming more to the fullness of image, and ripened to be harvested. And that the purification has taken place in the life, as to the symbolics, and so then with the wisdom there is the power of control, and the ancient, as to electing a president not too young to be sure that he can handle the situation. So, we see all these things happening. As in heaven so in earth. And all invisible things understood by the visible things, or the things which do appear. Even to the eternal Godhead, so that we are without excuse. Little ones, wouldn't you like to listen to what Brother Pike is saying? That's great. Now, so then, we find, not that I said anything to hurt the little ones, but they're here kicking at each other with their feet and playing. In the house of the Lord we should know how to behave ourselves. If you were in school I think the teacher would say something to you. I know Brother Taylor would. All right. So, Paul said, I'm a preacher and a teacher. Here we are right at the end time. Now, there's a severing, a dividing asunder. And sad to say, some of you are beasts, and now it's going to be revealed. All this time being religious, being brilliant, thinking that you knew what to do, your careers and all of these things, and thinking that you are deacons and preachers and laity, and whatever as to the God world, you suddenly find out that it was just a myth. Like a condition of mythology. It really wasn't there at all. But you that are children of God, you can be sure that you are a very stable source, as to a substantial image that will be, has been. You are, and will be, eternally. Never be alternations of your fashions, or countenance, of anyway as in Him, but as to the natural eye, it will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. But only alterations, as to put off the dirty garment, as it was said there in the Bible as to Joshua, the high priest, to clothe him with that wonderful garment, as to say, Zion, put on thy beautiful garments. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provisions for the flesh that's of that dirty garment to fulfill the desire thereof, but put on the garment that was tried in the fire, or the body that passed through the flames of hell, as to the purging, that it might be you as in the resurrection of who you are now, because He was resurrected from the dead, as to your living being, as of today. Not as just to your spirit, but as to your living being, but your living being was caught away, buried with Him in baptism in the name of the Lord, resurrected in the newness of life, as to justification by faith of Christ Jesus and now that body is caught away. So, you are no more what you was, as to the body of devastation, and the body of that which is degraded, but now you are the very body of the Lord Jesus setting on the Throne. And as Paul said, that which you could not perform in this body, having no way to perform it, wretched man, he said, has gone to Calvary and be crucified, and now your performance, as to your hearts desire, as to a will, is now made manifest in Jesus, for it was performed in Jesus, and God there gave us the performance. Paul found a way to perform it, and He is our righteousness, thus we believe unto Him, as to the body. And folks, that body is going to be made manifest, because that's who you are. And this other is dead, buried in this world, at the grave, and it's with the dead, and among the dead, because it is of the dead. It is of the first man Adam, and in Adam all men die. As to the world, in Eve, Eve the mother of all living, as to say the world, the mother, as to this, the dust of all the children of the earth. But we, as to heavenly Jerusalem being the mother of us all, as to the wonderful, spiritual world. And so we are in Him. Of His fullness have we received. So, we find a place of performance in God, accredits all of that to us, and now we are without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. Now then, having been on a journey from Egypt to Canaan, as to going into another world, as from this natural to the spiritual. Comprehending now, we're coming down to the end of the trail, and the Churches Ages are about over, and now this wonderful mind is swallowing up. And the rapture has been taking place all the time, as you call it. The change has been taking place all the time, from glory to glory, and the revealing, as to the brightness of the coming of the Lord, destroying this outer, perverted image, or that is doing away with it to where the eradication is. There is no more mind of it, and now your mind is heavenly, and all of a sudden that head appears to the membership of the body, that you as the body of Christ, that body which you are, as to that setting on the throne, being made manifest so the whole world can pass away, as to the vanities. Bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, for your life, translated into Christ, as the inner life is now hid in the body of Christ whose members you are. Or that is, it's gone to be with God in Christ, living in the human body of Christ, as to the blood dipped vesture, which is on the throne, you've over come and you've set down in the throne with Him, as to that life that resides within that wonderful body of Christ, even the Father's house. To wit that God was in Jesus, the Father's house, of the members, or the mansions that you are, as to whatever your measure is. As to the membership of that body, for in that body is many members. Or as we say, the Father's house, many mansions. Are you a member of it? If you are not you don't have a mansion. He didn't prepare a place for you, for the preparation of all that He done, as to birth, as to life, as to be your example, as to being that human body was a preparation for the place of abode, where your soul could pass from that of the image of death, as to the first man Adam by the washing of regeneration into the body of the second man Adam, as to the Father's house, as to whatever the membership might be, as to your mansion, or your measure. Let's lift our hands and close our eyes, because the thing is coming to pass. And all of a sudden the beast are going to be there. And the children of God are going to be there, as to partakers of the benefit. And it will all be over and everybody will wonder where the rapture is, and they'll wonder what happened. And it will be suddenly, as to a nova, as to the sun moving far away. The light will suddenly be gone. Glorify God, not only in your spirit, but the Bible said, in your bodies which belongs to God. Glorify God in your bodies which belongs to God. Glorify God in your spirit and body, which is the Lord's. Once again with your eyes closed and your hands lifted. (Continues singing.) While we're singing I'm going to ask Chris to come up if he will and dismiss us. Sing with us now. (Continues singing.) The Bible said examine yourself and see if you be in the faith. See if your conviction of believing has been in the Word of God. See if it has been in the Word of God. If your conviction of believing is in the Word of God it will stimulate thoughts as to transformation of mind, and these thoughts will change you inwardly as to that inner man, as to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. God loves you without respect of person. If you've sinned then sin no more unless a worse thing come upon you, because when you come to the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, as to Calvary. It's done away with, see? And Jesus would have to die the second time for you, because God would have to crucify Him the second time, and you crucify Him a fresh and put Him to an open shame. And God will not allow that, as in your ignorance, as to being cold, you are preserved as to being cold. As I said the other day, they are now beginning to unearth, as we say, or they begin to melt away the glaciers, and things are beginning to make a change. Beginning to make a change. (Continues singing.) And I notice that in the change, the ice melting away, as it melts away, whereas, the world being tilted on its axis by these heavy glaciers, and these capped off mountains, as to the righteousness of God in Christ, or as to this that is in the heavenlies, as the glaciers are melting all of a sudden they're melting down, and whereas when the earth was tilted and all of this water went to one place, and as to the atmosphere freezing on the top of the mountains, now it's melting down and flowing back into the ocean, and the water weight that tilted the earth, as to the top of the mountains now runs down to the base of the mountains into the valleys and into the rivers and back into the ocean, as to make the world flip upright on its axis, its imaginary axis, as to cause it to flip upright because man, as to the natural, to the physical, to the spiritual, everything is tilted on its axis as to the angelic world, as to Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Jesus being smitten, as to a third part, and as to the tilt. And with this everything must come upright. You're in that tilt, but you've got to come upright, because inwardly you're becoming upright, and your change must take place in the body. And that body that is cold and frozen in, even as a man that they found the other day with his hatchet in his hand, or his sword in his hand, frozen in tact, in good shape, frozen. God has allowed you to be among the cold, them that do not know. Where there is no knowledge of sin, sin is not imputed, and you've been among the cold. I would that you were hot or cold, because there is preservation, as to cold, and there's life in that that is hot. And I would that you were hot or cold, because when you are cold you don't know, and He's preserved us within those glaciers of ice, as to the tilting, or the flesh, the world as to the flesh. And here we are, hid away in tact, everything. And now is the hour of revelation, as to the revealing, as to the melting away, as to the species of God, as to the perfect man, to where not one germ could survive, as to that body, as to a deterioration. Now its being brought forth. All of a sudden we're in that age. We're at that time. So then, in being this way and seeing this we know then that the end of the world is here. We're knowing that the revealed is here. And we understand now that this body that has been cold is numbered with the unbeliever in the bodily image of that which is not favorable to God. It's dead. It knoweth not anything, for the dead know not anything. And we're reckoned to be dead by the Lord Jesus. Now all of a sudden our life shall appear, even Christ when He appears, which is our spiritual life, as to our spirit of life having been translated into Christ, and that Christ, that Christ, as to us being hid in Christ with God whom the heavens have received until the time of the change, as to the coming as to the Thessalonian appearing. All of a sudden our life is beginning to appear now within the body. The words of Spirit and life and understanding, as to the transformation, coming to surface, as to Christ Jesus being made manifest, as to that quickening spirit into these mortal genes to change this body from a terrestrial glory to a Celestial glory, or from this natural to the spiritual, or from this corruptible to the incorruptible. So, here we are at the end of the world, and the world is melting away, as to the ice. Scientist is saying now that everything is getting warmer and the glaciers are beginning to melt. They can't account for it. But see? It's the time and season, as to their life and God is so ordained that now it comes to pass because we are beginning to hear differently, so we think differently. And when we think differently, we believe differently, because faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And now this thing is beginning to drop down into our heart. It's not an intellectual reflection as to a indoctrination from a tree of knowledge, as to that of to know of God and His greatness, and His attributes, as to that which is an expose of the law unto death, but rather we are beginning to see now, as to what he is in revelation, as to grace to us while He is death to the world, and they have fallen from grace under the law, being judged of the law as condemned unto the death, as to the Jews representing that. Now, folks, here we are, as to that resurrection, and if the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be but life from the dead. Or that is, as they come to the knowledge of life it means the change of our body and this light now being made manifest as to the law being fulfilled through the grace of God that's within our hearts. So then, it's here. The time is here. What are we going to do? Let's lift our hands up while my brother is standing here before me. Just before we turn this back to Chris let's sing another verse of that song. Let's yield our hearts and spirits as unto God, as them that are alive from the dead to yield our bodies to God in that while we were yet in death and in sin all of these things, as to iniquity unto death worked within us, but now it is no more and we are free. Don't let sin reign in your mortal body that it should have control of you, but yield your members as those that are alive from the dead, abiding within this liberty of the Sons of God, as this creature is changed also into the glorious liberties of that inner Son of God that you might enjoy the benefits of that which is given to you. Not only as a spirit, but as a creature, to be holy in body and in spirit. And don't just be a reflector to hear these things, but let it get into your heart, because there will be no remembrance of them if you are a reflector. And there will be nothing given to you of the benefits, though you have reflected, and as this new thing comes, as God doing a new thing. And now don't get exuberant in the flesh as to manifest yourself. But make Christ to be known in your life for He is the glory. He is the wonderful thing, and to be like Him it's much better than reflecting and trying to project ourselves to make Him be like us. He hath been like us, as to Calvary for our death, now it's ours to be like Him. And that is when you are brilliant and bright and glorious and outshining the noonday with all the potentialities of life. Don't let Satan's mind allure you to yield to your human desire, as to the beggarly elements of the world for a few crumbs of this life. (Continues singing.) Remember you are going to think different. You're hearing different now. Faith by hearing, and that faith within the heart. With the heart man believeth, as to Him that thinketh in His heart. The revelated mind of Christ, and thus you become Gods to live forever, because now there is a people that are thinking different. There will be a people that will believe different. There will be a people that's translated by faith, as to the hearing of that Word, or those thoughts that will take them away as a nova, and the light going out in the world, intellectual darkness, as to Satan, the god of that tree of knowledge will take over, and there won't be any healing medicines, there won't be anything, and they will gnaw their tongues for pain. God, the consuming fire will eradicate them forever, destroy them with the brightness of His coming. (Continues singing.) Have you ask yourself the question, why that in this day there is so much oppression? Youth is oppressed. The Bible said, Young men's hearts failing for fear of looking after those things that's coming upon the earth. Oppressed by IRS, oppressed by the devils and demons of the world, and every facility of life, every organization of life, by the governments of life, by the schools, everything. Afraid to get in your can and drive down the road, afraid you'll have a wreck, or afraid your loved ones are going to get killed, and you'll get a report any time. Under these kind of pressures man cannot survive. Constant pressures of every nature, of every description. It is the end of the world. It is a consummation. (Continues singing.) See? It's a consummation of the brightness of His coming, and the condemnation as to the flesh, and as of to the intellectual. It's beginning to show forth and the powers of oppression, and Satan like a roaring lion devouring whom he can get a hold of to overcome, to press you into his way that he might use your body, and your soul for his benefit to get out of those dry places a few minutes. As the demons said, Have you come to torment us before our time? And it's going to get worse and worse, folks. That body will become a prison, because Satan is interwoven within it's bars of bones holding your soul. And more and more it will become a prison rather than a jubilant thing as that innocency of the body of Christ given to you by the grace of God, even as the blood comes off of the seat of atonement and the expulsion of Lucifer comes to be at hand. So, everything is there, and the brightness of His coming is casting Lucifer out. You've got to remember the end of the world. You don't understand a lot of times. Some of you are beginning to understand, but the end of the world is with the brightness of the revelated understanding that eradicates the shadows and the dissipating of the shadows is the world becoming no more. It is thus passing away, and heaven and earth passes away. And the vanity of those shadows they pass away, and the thoughts of that world, that world is a thought within your heart. And a thought is that world within your heart, and the tree of knowledge is that world of thinking and understanding according to Lucifer's desire, as to his kingdom and his power, as to the lust of your flesh, and the desire of your own person, and the projecting of self-esteem. And so then, in with this you will have this for the Bible said God has put the world within their heart to where they cannot find the end of anything. And everything is ordained, as to that which causes you to walk in the old Indian death march, as to in a circle never finding your way out. But God has taken that out by a new birth, and He's putting the Kingdom of God within you, as to the replacement of those thoughts of education and self-esteem, and as to having positions in this life, of being dignitaries in this life, money, prestige, all these kind of things, or having what you call a career in this life. He is replacing that as to you that love the Lord. And He's putting the Kingdom of God within your heart. And from glory to glory and thought to thought He's eradicating, and He is placing the Kingdom of God in your heart, as to the measure that you are able to receive. So you that are ordained as to corruption and death it will make itself manifest, because the end of the world is here. And the Kingdom of God, as with His brightness, shall suddenly appear within you. And saying this in closing, you were made in the beginning for the body of Almighty God, and for God, the great spirit of life, to live in that you might have the abundance of living and all blessings. And Satan stole that body. He has been in it, he has through that, in that he is cut off from God because of his evil crime, he is in it as a parasite. And through the human senses he comes into your body, and he controls your body and brings it to a child of bondage, and to the beggarly elements of the world in that they are not to be compared to that heavenly treasure that shall be revealed in you at the coming of the Lord. And so then, as to that image, he works within you unto death. But Jesus has killed that body of sin. He's done away with it. Don't esteem it any more; pull away from it. Mortify the deeds of the flesh. Stay away from it, and let this heavenly treasure, as to Christ, as to the new mind, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, of self-denial, of Christ esteemed, and let it swallow up your iniquity and your vanity in Calvary that you are no more as to that life, but as to the resurrected Christ of this life that you may have all the wonderfulness of life, all the riches of life, eternal life, all those wonderful things that I spoke of. To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus. So, in doing this I tell you to give yourself to the Lord, for the Lord has found you. You did not find Him. I come to seek and to save that which is lost. You have not sought me. I have sought you. You were in darkness; you couldn't find Him. But He has found you, paid the price to redeem you. And that life that is just a little stimulation of nerves that God has switched man over to when the great wonderful image of God was lost, and the godliness of man was lost, and that image in which it was made, even the quickening image of the inspiration of Almighty God, as to the covering of God. Whereas He said, You cover with a covering, but not of Me. And as to the covering cherubs that we cannot speak particular, Paul said in his day, as to now, having covered you with skins he is going to take that away, and you'll have that covering again, as to the image of God, to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, as to that glorified image that you be found not naked, as it would be in the later times, and that not without the wedding garment as you stand, your life clothed within the body of the great Prince, Himself. So then, as it would be, folks, you'll despise your image at the brightness of His coming if you continue to go on with that body that you've got, that image that you are clothed with, as to the skin of the beast in that you fell to that level through the weakness of your forefather Adam. And in that all die, because you are in prison to the body of that beast, and the ordination as to the curse as upon Him, that all die. So, He has brought us back to that image and that quickening once again, and it's not just a little breath of life, as to the quickening and stimulation of that to which you relate, as to the tangible side of life. But you are quickened now by the inner man, as to the spiritual (Begin tape two, side two.)... If this spirit be in you that raised up Christ from the dead, He shall also by this quickening, as to His spirit, quicken your mortal body. And if you have not that spirit you don't have life, because life is the quickening, and God is the judge of the quickening and of the dead, to judge you as men in the flesh, and to fasten you to Calvary, Peter said, but to judge you as God in the spirit, as to liberty, as to the inner man. So then, folks, He has switched you back over. He has kept you alive on that natural quickening to keep from losing His most prized possession, even the body as to the redemption of the body, as to the adoption. Whereas, the Bible said the purchased possession, that He purchased in Christ of the lamb being slain within his mind, as from the foundation of the world, made manifest in these last times through Jesus. This is your generation. You are born unto it as to this song that we're fixing to sing, and that is Time Shall Be No More at Calvary, in the fullness of time when the seed comes to whom the promise was made, even you, the bodily members. He's thawing you out. Now, and as to this, the fullness of time, gathering all things in heaven and earth, as to baptize them into one body by one spirit, even as to the waters of Noah this is to me. The Bible said. And as those things that were preserved in the ark of Noah, so are ye today, as in the body of the Lord. And all the rest, the devastation, as to the consuming fire, as to Calvary, has consumed them, and they are no more in the sight of God. He doesn't see the anymore, and after awhile they'll fade to be there no more. Let's sing this song, can we? Brother Taylor. Can you lift your hands up? Surrender your heart to God, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved, to call upon Him while He is near, to lift your heart, your head, your hands to heaven, and have this wonderful blessing of God, even eternal life. Folks, this is not an old fashion religion. This is the great wonderfulness of the Almighty everlasting, eternal act, and events of God, Himself. Let's sing that together. (Continues singing, and sings Time Shall Be No More.) And the mysteries of God shall be finished, and the angel of the Lord shall stand upon the land and the sea. One foot upon the land, and one foot upon the sea with His hands raised to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth forever and ever that time should be no more. In the fullness of time we saw this in Calvary as the Lord lifted up His hands to Calvary and the fullness of time came, and the heavenly age set in. (Continues singing.) See? And the heavenly age set in from the four ninety, as to the seven taken away from the four eighty-three to the seven, as to the heavenly, as to the dispensation of the Gentiles, those that dwell in heaven, as to the pouring out of His spirit upon the just and the unjust. And as to the revealing of the mysteries, as to being made known in our time. And now we're coming back to the seven, as to the earthly prospective and the judgment, and the bodily change, as to the Jew, the redemption as to us catching away, as to that Elijah catching away, and that Elisha there as to the plowing of those twelve oxen, coming in at this time as to set up a natural judgment for our returning after the tribulation that the millennium might be here and that greatness, as to that vision that I saw where the millennium came in after the fire. Everything is here, everything has come to pass in that it hath been a mind and a revelation rather than this natural potentiality of human dust that knows nothing, that is nothing. And the contest is between the two great minds, as to the two spirits, even Lucifer and God, one a reflector and one the great light. And now the change is at hand, and everything is just about finished, as to the transformating of the mind as to the revealing of the mysteries. Once again we're going to sing that chorus as Chris comes. (Continues singing.) Can you close your eyes, lift your hands to heaven? (Continues singing.) Chris. (Continues singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord