He That Hath An Ear

(Tape 1 Side 1 only)...every few days to make sure. Appreciate you coming out to be with us from time to time in the services. And indeed it is a privilege to be able to have a church as to an independency. We're not independent in the sense that we try to get away from other people. We love other people. We invite other people to come to be with us of any denomination or walk of life. And if they would love to cast their lot with us as to living for God, then we would like for them to do that. Some they do do that: thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold. Some comes in a little closer to the light; and some of them would like to have a little more fellowship. They would love to be a little more like Jesus. And of course this morning we mentioned a few things of why that we should be like Jesus. What is the profit of being like Jesus? Well, the Bible said, Godliness is profitable for this world and the world to come. It makes me think of Pete. I was thinking of Pete Pike. We was talking about Pete. Betty had a paper. They had given him an article as to a write-up. And out of the hundred independent nurseries, they have rated him as the top businessman. Between thirty-nine I believe to fifty million or forty-nine million or some thirty to fifty million or something like this. But I was thinking you know, award winning nurseries, the top business man, the biggest independent nursery in the world, and certainly Pete indeed is a wonderful person. We grew up together. But the thing is I think too again about though I pray for Him and the family, but I think of a wasted life. Maybe that doesn't sound right to you. But Aunt Velma being down not too long ago was talking to her about Pete. And Pete is becoming religious more and more. He contributes to the church. But still that doesn't do the job. And being independent here as to what we're doing for Christ,I think of him and I think of a wasted life. Though he hath contributed, done a lot to people as to the land-scaping and these kind of things. And everybody has a place in life and everybody has to do something. And his kind of work is clean and upright and could be blest of God and and has been blest of God. We prayed for them again and again. But at the same time, even though he does these things then that's not going to save Pete. See, with all the tittles, I believe somebody come to me today too and said they were announcing his name on the radio and talking about the top business man. But folks, it doesn't matter how great that you grow in the world and how mighty that you grow that you grow in the world, that does not merit not one little thing with God. Even as the preacher, even as a minister, even as a minister, even as a church member, even as giving, just giving and coming to church and being religious, it does not merit one favor with God. There's only one way that you can have salvation and one way that you can have eternal life. You must be born again. And the only way that you can have eternal life, the Bible said, This life is in the Son. And unless you have the spirit of the Son you don't have this life. Because the Bible said, If you have not His Spirit then you're none of His. Though you come to church all your life, though you do these things all your life, though you give to God all your life, though you pray all your life, though you fast all your life, and though you conform as to your idea about religion all your life, and feel that you are a great, mighty person as in the eyes of the people, but still if you don't have His Spirit you don't have eternal life. So then the main thing I say so often is that we're saved not because we're good, we're saved because He's good. But we do have to make ourself available to God as to receive of His Spirit, to draw nigh unto God and He'll draw nigh unto us, or to make ourself available that we might receive of His Spirit. And that way we have life because there's no life in the natural life as in the spirit. And if you have the spirit then you have life. If you don't have the spirit then you don't have any life because it is the Spirit He quickeneth. And without the Spirit if you happen to pass away in this world like Brother Merrit did, Merklin, then you don't have any resurrection if you don't have any resurrection if you don't pass away with the Spirit in you. Brother Merklin has gone to church with a regularity, done all kind of things, been an outstanding individual, but that doesn't mean anything. If he doesn't have God's Spirit that means that he is eternally separated from Almighty God. Because once you die you can't get the Spirit after that. See that, I know we have this little thing about purgatory and praying you out of purgatory, whereas you know better than that. But the thing is while you're in this world and you have the breathe of life, you can take on the Spirit of God and you can receive the Spirit of God. But in the event that you don't do that and you just lay it aside and you wait, hoping for something beyond the grave and to stand at the judgement thinking that, well, I'm going to be just as good as he or she. When I stand at the judgement, I'll have just as much chance as that. That's not the way it works at all. Judgement to begin with is at the house of the Lord. And as to the remitting of sins and the retaining of sins it's up to the ministry. And then when it comes to eternal life, you receive eternal life by faith of the infilling or the indwelling of the Spirit. I preached the other night a little simple message on the acts of the apostles at the nineteenth chapter of Acts, when Paul had run into certain disciples of John saying, Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? And they said, Well we've not heard so much whether there be a Holy Ghost or not? He said then, Under what baptism was you baptized, in that we know that the name of Jesus is for remission of sin? They said under John's baptism. And Paul said, Unto repentance. Said, But not remission of sin. Remission of sin is in none other name but Jesus name. So then he rebaptized them and then they received the Holy Ghost. Until that time they'd not even heard of the Holy Ghost. They'd not received the Holy Ghost. They'd not received the Holy Spirit. But when the name Jesus come then they received the Holy Ghost. Peter going down to Cornelius's and preaching the gospel through the name Jesus, Cornelius had prayed. Cornelius had fasted even to the extent that there came down an angel from heaven and talked with him, but when the angel from heaven came and talked with him. He didn't give him salvation. Having the vision didn't give him salvation. The Bible said, he gave so many alms that his alms deed came up as a memorial before God, but it didn't give him salvation. But because of his concern it did move God to the extent that God sent the man to him to preach to him the plan of salvation. And the Bible said, As Peter preached to them then the Holy Ghost fell on them and they began to receive the Holy Ghost. And Peter said, Now you need to be baptized in Jesus name. I preached the name Jesus to you and remission of sin and the name Jesus, and you have believed on the name Jesus and you're calling on the name Jesus as to be baptized. Paul, calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus and wash away your sins, the like figure whereunto baptism does also now save us, as the symbolics of being buried with Him and resurrected from that watery grave. As to say that we must have His Spirit. There is no other way. If you don't have His Spirit, beloved friend, you're not His. So though we be independent a part from the different operations of the world as to the natural, it is not because we desired that in the sense that we want to be different. But rather we desired that because there is so few people even in the denominational walk of life that actually teaches remission of sin in the name Jesus. And we believe in the Word of God. And we find even with some of them that do teach remission of sin in the name Jesus, that they do not teach a separation from the world as to come out from among them to be a separate people. And then we find that with some, even though they teach to come out, they do not teach that we are to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus to the fulness of the stature, as to go on to be perfect before God, as to bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ to where, that we give our bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God as a reasonable service, to where we can say, it's not us living but Christ that's living. And the life I now live, I live by the Son of God. Or to give our bodies holy unto God, people don't teach this. So you find thirty-fold, sixty-fold, a hundred-fold, but we believe in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Like I was saying to somebody just before I come into the service tonight, I said, You know it's amazing to me. I cannot understand how that people can know about this thing and just play around with it the way they do. I cannot understand that. Since the day that I come into contact with this, it's just, my whole life and heart has been directed toward it. From the time that I saw the pearl of great price as a real young man. And I've tried to carry the gospel and tried to live a clean, holy, godly, pure upright life before God Almighty, to the intents of my heart, and the reflex of my mind. Jealous over my thoughts with a godly jealousy. As I say so often to be perfect before God, wanting to be a perfect man in my generation, begging God to make me a perfect man in my generation. Now see, I said just before I came in to some brethren, I said, Brethren, just, I asked one brother, I said, What would you like to trade your eternal life for? He said, Nothing, I said, Well, why do so many people trade it for so many frivolous things? I said, Supposing that we took stock and on a Monday morning, on a Monday morning that we took stock, we started early in the morning and we begin to mark down every thought that we thought as to carnality in the natural, and every word that we said as to carnality in the natural, and every desire and ambition and enthusiasm that we had as to the natural and every endeavor, every act, everything that we did through that day and through that week. And then at the same time we would mark down every time as to the thoughts of Christ,the conversation of Christ, the things that we did for Christ, all of the different things that are spiritual in our life, that we done mark everyone of those down and then at the end of the week take stock. How do you think that we would look in the sight of God? Let's give the Lord a hand. That's a good way to find out whether or not the preachers wrong when he said there's so much carnality. Whereas a lot of people would say, Well Brother Pike, what do you expect out of us? What do you think God expects out of us? Well the Bible said, He expects out of you that ye should bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ, that you should deny yourself; take up your cross and follow Him; that ye should equip yourselves with a mind to suffer as to the flesh. For they that have suffered in the flesh have ceased from sin. And that ye should be sure that you meditate in His laws day and night. That that body should be a living sacrifice with every thought just exactly the way that He wants it, to where you can say that it is not I that liveth but it's Christ that liveth within me; and the life I now live I live by the Son of God. See, if we took this outlook, and if we put everything down from Monday right on through the weekend, I wonder just exactly where we would be. I wonder just exactly where we would be. Here in the book of Revelation the Spirit is saying as we look at the book of Revelation here. John is saying, Let Him that hath an ear hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. And then the question arise, Do you have an ear to hear? I said today to some of them while we were talking, you don't have an ear to hear. Though you have an ear and though you hear, yet you don't hear. And though you have eyes to see and you see, and yet you don't see. And I was trying to stress this morning as to the end of the world and the things coming to a consumation; and the way that the end of the world is coming; and how that these things would befalling us in this hour and the people still are not seeing it. And I know that can be disputed. But I say so often that in standing up in the heaven and being up in heaven and seeing these glorious things as the whole heavens was filled with them, that I could not find one person in the earth that saw them. With the vast multitude as I look back. See, and I know that if that be of God, then there's something going on. Because here Paul received a revelation. And he couldn't find anybody that could see what he was trying to tell them. And there in the heavens as we say when we look into heaven as to this vision being up here in levitation, looking up into heaven, see, that is a natural expression as to God conveying these things to my natural intellect. But I know that when he says that when we speak of being in heaven, what we're talking about is being in the spirit. Looking into heaven, for heaven is the spirit. And we look into heaven and we see these many beautiful things in the spirit, being caught up in the spirit as John was. He was in the spirit on the Lord's day as to caught up into heaven and there he saw the Revelation of Jesus Christ or the revelating of that which was, that is and that which is to come. See, the prophets of old would prophesy, they'd come into a town and they'd say, Thus saith the Lord. How? Because the Bible said, Christ with them working with them. And of course, Christ in them as not to the gift of the Spirit, but being filled over and over with the Spirit they were saying these wonderful things. Thus saith the Lord. Because the mind of Christ was revealing to them and bringing them this understanding and this wonderful revelation speaking of the coming of your day and speaking of the coming of the things of God and of this great, wonderful day of the sufferings of Christ, as even your bodily membership; and of this wonderful Calvary experience of the kingdom coming as to the promised Son. And then in this day us entering into heaven and sitting in these heavenly places and being made partakers of that heavenly treasure in heaven to have it in our earthen vessels, all in this day in which we live. So it's a wonderful thing to be living in this day. Even in Jesus' times He reminded them, He said, You have entered into the labor of others. And said, Many great and mighty things that great men have desired to see and could not see, He said, You see them. And so then we are as babes in Christ, and this thing made a revelation to us. And we have this wonderful opportunity to live for God, to preach the Gospel, to testify the Gospel, to enjoy divine deliverance and divine healing, to enjoy properity and blessings. I say so often the things that God would that ye have is prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospereth. And I say again as to this threefold blessing as to the prosperity of the natural life that you may have cars and houses, homes and whatever you need as to the comforts and consolation of life. Whether it be food or clothing or whatever, and then that you might have secondarily a wonderful human physic as to health, strength, to be able to enjoy these wonderful blessings, and thirdly as to the blessing of God, that you might have a soul enlightening to the securities of an eternal bliss or an eternal preservation that these things may never be taken away from you. That they may be yours not only in this world but in the world to come, that they might be given to you on eternal basis to where you will never be sick, to where you will never be in poverty, and to where you will never be out of the presence of God as to be punished for sin or turned into a lake of fire. So he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. Do you then have an ear? I spoke this morning of the severing asunder or the dividing asunder, as to the vision that we had where the brute suddenly was shown to be beast and the others were suddenly shown to be that as to would be children of God. And how that this is in effect right now, and the great dividing is taking place and the great severing is taking place, and these great and mighty things are happening that God wants to happen to us. And God is translating into the kingdom of God with a regularity ever since Calvary. These people are pressing their way into the kingdom of God. And they're moving right on into the kingdom of God and they're being changed into an eternal being, into an eternal creature or an eternal being. See, and sitting in this little congregation here at Bethlehem and those that hear it, as this goes around the different parts of the world, see, knowing this and seeing this and these people see this and these people hear this, see, two in the bed, one taken and one left, two in the field, one taken and one left, two grinding at the mill, one taken and one left, and here they are altogether. See, all of them are together, and you can't tell the difference. And because of the grace of God that's on the seat of atonement on the mercy seat, then the rain is upon the just and the unjust. And so they all are happy, they all are religious. They all are in heaven to the extent of the days of Grace. And while some are turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, yet they're still in the presence of God as to this grace and you can't tell the difference. They go to church. They testify. They say, I have God and whatever. But you remember this morning I was pointing out to you that as to what a seed is, the potentiality of that seed is what's going to bring the harvest. There's going to be a harvest of every seed, and if it's a tare seed, it will be a tare harvest that will be cut down. God will bind them into bundles and throw them into the fire. But if it be tare as to wheat then it will be cut down. The wheat will be gathered into bundles and gathered into the barn as to the master's use. So then you are predestinated as unto an end. And your life is terminal as unto an end if you are a tare. But if you're not a tare and you are wheat, then you are predestinated unto that that is without an end; and you are predestinated unto life as to blessings and riches and power and majesty as to an endless life and endless riches; whereas, I say if you are a tare then corruption is on the inside of you and it will manifest itself. It will come forth. You cannot get sweet water out of a bitter fountain. Neither can you get bitter water out of sweet fountain. So then the child is known by his doing. If you don't do righteousness and if you don't practice righteousness, and if you're not righteous in your doings and expressions, then you're not righteous, and you don't have eternal life. No matter how religious you are, what church you belong too, or how much you confess that you believe in the Gospel and predestination you are still not God's. And if you do the things that's right to be about the Father's business, having the nature of Christ, then it will show. And as it does show then these wonderful blessings will overtake you, because you are a child of God. So to do wrong you got the wrong spirit. To do right you got the right spirit. And though you may stumble and stagger as with the right spirit, yet God will help you because you have the right spirit and you're trying your best to be sincere inwardly with God and your fellow man, and have an integrity with man and life. Jesus grew in favor with man and God; and because of this then God will help you up and strengthen you and you'll make it. But though you be a tare you might be very religious as Cain was, and you may come to church, and you may do things that would seemingly be good as to catch people's attention, but you're still a tare, you're still corrupt on the inside, and with all of your religious efforts, you still die and you're cast into the fire. All right, so then he that hath an ear, a Christian ear, a Christ-like ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. What is the Spirit saying unto the churches? That ye should repent of your sins. Ye should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins that you might receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; for this great, wonderful Spirit of God that He's given to them that call upon His name. Call upon the Lord while He is near. And what is the Spirit saying unto the churches? That is what we said this morning as to this great, wonderful potential that is yours which is in Christ Jesus. As He is so am I. Whatever He is that's what I am in the sight of God. Everything that He is and He is everything. So then what am I in the sight of God? I'm everything. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody say, Hallelujah! So Jesus said, Ye are gods, but ye shall die like men from the lack of knowledge. What kind of knowledge would I then be lacking in. The lack of the knowledge of God. What is the knowledge of God? The knowledge of God is those understandings that's brought to you by the ministry, or the Holy Spirit through the ministry that makes you to know your benefits as to your natural blessing, your physical blessing and your spiritual blessing. So then what kind of knowledge do I need? I need to know the Word of God. For the Bible said, The knowledge of truth, to know the truth it will make you free. And I need the knowledge of the truth. Jesus said to Pilot one time, I come to bear witness of the truth. And Pilot said, What is truth? Truth is God's Word. The spirit of truth is the Holy Ghost within you and me. The Spirit of Christ, that's what truth is. There is no truth outside of the Spirit of Christ. So then the Bible says as to Jesus' departing, he said, I go away, but I'll come again and the world shall not see me, but ye shall see me. And ye shall see me and know me for I shall be in you. And so then the Bible said, We're the temples of the great Holy Spirit. And He walks in us and He talks in us and He is with us. And you know to people some people that don't mean anything. To some people what are you saying you know when you know when you talk about this great wonderful Spirit that they can't see, that they don't know, that they don't esteem to be nothing? What are you talking about? I'm talking about as I was saying to my wife today, this great, wonderful Spirit which is Christ's Spirit, that spiritual Christ that was before the world ever was, before the world ever was. Before He ever became a human body to be made manifest as the beginning of the creation of God. Or that is that God the Word, the Great Spirit was made flesh. See, that great, wonderful Christ. What is this? It is an angel. It is the angel of the Lord. It is the angelic being of Christ. Before it was ever personified in a human body, this great beautiful angel, this great angel that's so beautiful and so mighty and so magnificent, so wonderful is He as to the radiance of the colors of the rainbow, as to the wonderful life and strength and the jubilance of youth and power and magnificence rule as being Lord and God over everything, Christ over His kingdom. See, and as I said today to my wife, this is what caused the fall. See, this is where the fall came from was Lucifer. Lucifer said in his heart, I shall ascend into the heavens. And I shall be like the most high. And I'll set my nest among the stars. And the Bible said, And though you do from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. And so then Satan within the human body today, as I've said, they have climbed up as to the serpent in the upper lentil, and they've gotten between you and between God as to the inner you, the spiritual you, the angelic you that's acquainted with the angelic world, and they are as to Satan and the demons within your human body as to this veil of iniquity that has separated between you and God. And the Bible said that my ear is not dull that it cannot hear. My hand is not short that it cannot reach down to you. But thine iniquities have separated between thee and thy God as to the inner you and as to the spiritual God; and thine iniquities have separated between you and God and held you back from the good things. But then the Lord comes, He fulfills the law. He goes to Calvary and your iniquity is smitten. Your iniquity is taken away. And as to the body of iniquity, in iniquity did my mother conceive me, shapen in iniquity and here Christ becomes that body of iniquity as to that body of sin to free my inner angelic being of the inner man that's separated from the heavenly Father, who is a Father of Spirits, and here He smites it at Calvary. And away goes my iniquity and away goes the body of death, and away goes the body of sin. And my inner man is like a bird out of a cage. He goes back to God who gave it. At death I am now dead by the body of the Lord Jesus to reckon myself to be dead in deed unto sin by the body of the Lord Jesus and as in the resurrection alive with Christ as to that that dwells in heaven. Hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the restoring of all things as to the coming change. All right so then I know that I'm free. I'm free. I'm free. Hallelujah! The writer said, I am free. I am free indeed. So then I am free. I am set free from this prison by the body of Jesus. My iniquity is now gone. Can God then say to me, thine iniquities have separated between thee and thy God and held thee back from good things? How could God ever say that because my iniquities are no more. But if I acknowledge my iniquities to the extent that I'm not steadfast in my walk and experience with God, then my iniquities is there again. If I doubt, then my iniquities is there again. If I fail to believe in the Word the Bible said, It's impossible to please God without faith. He that cometh to God must believe there is a God and believe that He is, and He must believe that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek God. And so then He must diligently seek God to have this wonderful reward. See, so my iniquities is gone. My sins are gone. There's no more. They're in the sea of forgetfulness. But on the other hand though I'm free, the Bible said that I should stand steadfast in the freedom wherein Christ hath made us free. For we one time were children of disobedience, and the spirit of disobedience worked within us as to the conception of iniquity. Within my flesh dwelleth no good thing, Paul said. For inwardly to will is present, but outwardly how to perform that which is good as to righteousness I find not. So now that I have my performance as to my righteousness which is the body of the Lord Jesus, and that as to the pleasure of God to the extent that He's caught up into the heavens even as Paul, which said it is Christ caught up into the heavens, even as you and I which is no more in the earth. God having chosen us out of the earth, hid us with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the change as to the human concept. See, I say that for your benefit as to a natural understanding. Because folks, let me tell you, this thing was over before the world ever begun. It was a finished product in the mind of God. It was conceived in the mind of God. It was all finished in the mind of God. And then this mind has been given to us in the last day as to the expose' from the time of the manifestation of taking away our iniquity and the body of sin. And from that time it has been a transformation as to divine entrance into the kingdom. For when Christ came that was the entrance. As my body entered into the kingdom of God, as to Jesus becoming my sins and doing away with that, today I'm His body. So came His spirit into my spirit that my spirit might be purged. And now my spirit, my life is in the spirit of Christ. So I have now royal blood flowing through me. A new blood with a new life. I'm now bone of His bone and I am now flesh of His flesh. And I now have His spirit as to Christ on the inside of me, and I am completely free from sin. So then if that be true then I am what I am by the grace of God now eternally and forever. That means that I am altogether body, soul and spirit perfect in His sight. I am altogether without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. I am altogether as to from point A to point B completed. I am complete in Him. And of His fulness are we all partakers. So then whatever He is that's what I am because God made Him what He wanted me to be. And then he destroyed me... (Tape 1 Side 2 * there's just a few minutes on this side then sermon goes on to Tape 2 Side 1)... an image as to the that of debauchery, He put it away at Calvary to never see me again like that, but to see not the bastard child image as in Adam all die, but in Christ as to that which is resurrected from the dead which was a new creature or that is in another form, not as to the form image as being delivered as to sin, but the resurrected image of the likeness of that restored thing of the glory of His covering that was lost at the fall. So then I find that because I am like this it is over. It is finished. It is everything. There's not one thing I can do. Everything is over. All I do is praise Him and love Him and rejoice in Him; and in believing in Him I receive these benefits that's hid from the human eye. Because we're not they that walk by sight but rather by faith. So faith in His Word is my eye of understanding; and I see myself as complete in Him. I see my health, I see my happiness, I see my strength, I'm now not as to the creature delivered for offenses but rather as the creature that's raised from the dead as to a justification coming out of the watery grave in His name. Burying the old and coming up in the new. So then I know for sure that I'm already what He wants me to be, completely entirely throughout eternity. And my faith and confidence in that, my belief in that brings strength, it brings me happiness. My faith stimulates me and gives me a drive to go on because I can't die. I can't die. Sickness is gone. Death is gone. Poverty is gone. All these problems of fear and frustration is gone. I keep myself in Christ and the evil one toucheth me not; and he cannot come near my dwelling because I dwell in the world of light. And he is darkness and he cannot get near my dwelling for I am they that dwell in heaven. So then knowing this as to the benefits of God, I go on rejoicing and praising God to rejoice forevermore. Praising Him for this because through the eyes of understanding as to walking by faith, I see all these wonderful things as to the divine fulness of the potentiality of Almighty God given to me in Christ Jesus, and that's what I am today. So then I just enjoy it now. I just go right on enjoying it now. The heavens declaring the handiwork. Enoch discovered this and he began to rejoice in it so much, that all of a sudden he just vanished and he was gone; and they couldn't find him because he was translated by faith that he should not see death. The Bible said, Before this translation having a testimony that he pleased God; whereas without faith it's impossible to please God. Because God's pleasure is your eternal preservation, and God's pleasure is your eternal health, and God's pleasure is your eternal youth and strength and your eternal riches; and if you don't believe God you can't get any of that so that displeases God. That displeases God. All right so then he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. There are people that belong to this world. They belong to this world and it doesn't matter how much you preach to them, they still belong to this world. And they can hear everything orally that you express. And they know nothing because they do not have an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying. They do not understand it. They do not conceive of it because they belong to this world. And when they go out of your presence, whereas the Bible said, In His presence there is life, they go out of your presence, they are just as naughty as ever. They are just as contrary as ever. They are just as self-willed as ever. They desire the world and they have the love of the world just as much as ever before; and then they become what the Bible calls a proselyte two-fold more the child of hell. So we know then that there are children of this world, and we know that there are children of that world who are filled with the mind of Christ and the Spirit of Christ, that's constantly wanting to do away with the body and oppress the body, put the body down and bring the inner man out into the wonderful glories of God, that He might get control of the outer man and change the outer man into the marvelous things of God. As from glory to glory to make this life manifest in the mortal body. So this is what I am. I am born again. I am what I am by the grace of God. And I am walking in the light. And if I walk in the light as He is in the light, I'll have fellowship with my fellow man and with the brethren and with God Himself. To walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. Some of you that don't come around the brethren, some of you that don't come around the sisters, some of you that don't partake in the activities of godliness toward world evangelism to be about the Father's business, you don't have the Spirit of Christ, because the Spirit of Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. But you'd rather go to the ball games. You'd rather go to the skating rinks. You'd rather go down to the beaches. You'd rather eat and drink and go to the cafes. You'd rather talk and laugh and visit with your relatives. You'd rather have money and business. You'd rather be doing something as pertaining to the natural because this is your life. This is the real you, the inner you and this is the kind of person that you are. For the child is known by his doings. And you'd rather eat, drink, laugh, talk, lounge around, have the luxuries of life, have the convenience of life and the securities of life and let God go and let the things of God go. You do not have God. Beloved friend, you do not have God. But you that love the Lord, you that meditate in His laws day and night, you that hunger and thirst after God as David said as the hart, as the hart, the hart panteth after the water brook, so does my soul thirst after thee, oh God. So then you that thirst and hunger after the Word of God and the righteousness of God and the way. You know there's people in the world that they hunger and thirst as to their ambition to learn, to get the things of God. Satan would certainly love to have those things, but as to an application of life, as to to to incorporate this within their lifestyle to where the...body to do the things of God, to live a holy life, to fast and to pray and to give themselves to God as to a conformity of self-denial in every way as unto the Spirit of holiness, they don't do that. There are still silly people that run around after fasting and prayer in their ritualistic sort of a way as to desiring honor of men-kind and honor of one of another. And the Bible said, How can you have the honor of God when you do this? And they are measuring themselves by themselves as to degrees of the world and all of these kind of diplomacies and whatever. And these people are wanting to be something spectacular so they can pray and so they can prophesy and so they can say things. This is childish. It's foolishness and it has nothing to do with God. But on the other hand there are people that pray to subdue their bodies. They fast to conform to the way of the Lord. They study the Word so that they'll know His pleasure so that they can do His pleasure. These are the children of God as to being divine. And these are they that God is going to call at the coming of the Lord as to the change. All right so then as I brought it out this morning I know that many of you did not see it. And even tonight you still are not aware of what the Spirit is saying, nor what the Spirit is doing. See, but the thing is He is doing something. He is saying something. Something is happening. Every day of your unexcited life as to your remorse because of your pressures, and every day according to your greed and gullible desires as to the worldly things and going after the flesh, while you do this and you're not perceptive as to anything happening in the heavenlies, anything taking place in the Spirit still great and mighty things are taking place in heaven and we're watching them all the time. And I say once again that as to these things that are brought to you, conveyed to you through the expressions of God, or we say as to the ministry, it is not just a knowledge. Whereas as someone would say, I learned something else and I'm a little further along in my learning. You don't understand, a lot of you that God is in stride as from point A to point B in heaven and He's headed to a certain direction. And that is toward the perfection of the church and the catching away of the church, and as to the transformation of your mind in doing the things that pertain unto the spiritual world, and that these things that we say unto you are the revealed milestones as to coming this far or that far as from Florida to California. And I have finally got out of Florida. I'm in the state of Georgia. And I finally get out of the state of Georgia. I'm in the state of Mississippi or Louisiana and on and on as I go through these milestones toward the place where I'm headed as to my ultimatum or destination. So then you don't understand a lot of you that when we preach a sermon and we reveal things as to the Spirit speaking to you that that's a milestone; and that the spiritual world has come thus and there it is. As to that point of that's how close it is to the end of His work and the finishing of His work in you. So then a lot of you don't understand that the moving of the Spirit is not just another service, that you've learned another thing, and there you set not going on to perfection. And there you are and so it's just the same as it was ten years ago. It's not that way at all. So everything is moving right on. The mind of Christ is being perfected, and them that are the children of God are transformating in mind from glory to glory. He's called us to glory and virtue, and we're moving right on into that wonderful glory of God as to denial of self and as keeping our virtue in Christ. So then we're moving right on. This great, marvelous thing is happening while you continue on in your natural. You go back to the wallowing in the mire after you've been washed. You go back to the lapping of your vomit even after this; and all of the tables of God are filled with vomit, which means lukewarmness as to spew you out of His mouth. But at the same time the children of God are moving on. They're moving on and they're coming right on to this wonderful perfection. You hear it and you do nothing about it. You just go right on doing your thing in life. You go right on after your worldly prestige, and you go right on after the things that pertain unto the flesh. See, as it was when Jesus spoke to Satan concerning Peter's interruption there. And as a result of that you're just exactly what you are. And now you are even more lost to the extent that you are a proselyte two-fold more the child of hell, having come to these things and not given yourself to them. So then what should I do on Monday morning? I should give myself to God. From early morning till night to meditate in His laws day and night; and no matter what I do in the natural I should be spiritual all day long. Praising and loving the Lord and hastening unto the coming of the Lord, seeing that the coming of the Lord as in that time Peter said, Everything being on fire and the elements around us dissolving with fervent heat and on fire and burning in the whole earth and everything therein just melts away. What manner of conversation should we have as holy people of God? Thinking on God, testifying of God, doing the things of God, always in the work of God, fervent in charity and spirit toward the kingdom of God, always seeking the lost, taking the gospel into all the world for a witness. What kind of person should we be? Otherwise we just go back to our same old intellectual stride of life, same old rut, same old doings, same old thinking, same old sayings, and we wind up fruitless. We wind up without anything. All right so he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. The time is at hand, John said. As to the Revelation came the Spirit said the time is at hand. He that is holy, let him be holy still, the Spirit said. And he that is just let him be just still. And he that is filthy, the Bible said, Let him be filthy still. For the Spirit is speaking unto the church. All right, we see a lot of things taking place and we could go on and go on talking about the wonderful things of God. Because the time is at hand. And the fullness of time is here. And the great wonderful things of God is being revealed. And the end of the world has come. And there is a people for that world that has been in preparation as for this world. And though it has been hid, it's there. Now I want you to think on this in a closing thought here. In this world as Betty and I was discussing it today, in this world everything is a derivative from knowledge, even the tree of knowledge. Every accomplishment as to science falsely so called. And the convenience and comforts of life that God has allowed through this system as to the fall. You have all these wonderful consolations. You have new automobiles and you have markets. You have modern markets. You have modern facilities as to light and heating and whatever all because of a mind, all because of knowledge, all because God has allowed this life to emulate from Him through the shadows of veiling Himself in darkness which means your intellectual ignorance, until He can bring you to the light of God which is the revelated mind of His Spirit. See, so He allows all these things. And yet you knowing this and enjoying these convenience yet you, though you know and understand and accredit to the world of science all of these wonderful things that have come about through craftsmen, see, or craftsmenship; and yet when we speak of the mind of God and the greatness of the mind of God from which even Satan came as to allowance when God made him perfect and upright. But we talk about the mind of God and what the mind of God is bringing to maturity as in another world. And that this world is only a reflection as to the modernism of our day or as to the point of accomplishment of our day, and as to the luxuries and convenience such is heaven. That it is Jesus said, Preparing a place for you to come for you. And that place is almost completed as to these wonderful royalties and these wonderful things as to your eternal convenience as to the luxuries of heaven. See, and so then with this though we speak of a mind of Christ and these kind of things you seem to think nothing of it. You seem not to understand it. You seem not to apply yourself and you don't walk as by faith in the Word of God and the expression of God as to the benefits of God, that knowing that that is there as the heavenly home of this bride of Christ. So then all these things, knowing this see, and yet you can't conceive of it. Yet you can't get ahold of it. Yet you can't understand it, but yet it's happening. And there are they that are, they are for that world just like some of you are for this world, and that world is on the verge of being revealed, because all it is is as I say this being a reflection, it's a matter of taking away as to this lying vanity of divination, and bringing forth as to that which this has reflected all down through the years. And with the dissipation of this world and with the dissipation of you that are the beast of this world as to being a reflection, then that is to the body of Satan as to the image and that as to the reflection of God the dissipation of Satan, as to that which is a god of this world that the real God may come. All of a sudden that great, wonderful, celestial glory will come on the scene. And folks, her children is just about ready. Even Jerusalem, New Jerusalem, the mother of us all, not as in Eve where all of you die, but we that love the Lord as in New Jerusalem, not as to the bonds-maid as it was of Abraham and the child unto bondage, but as of the free child even Isaac unto whom the promise was made as to this eternal life and this eternal bliss of that city that Abraham his father searched for, which city hath foundation, whose builder and maker is God, and Paul speaking of being the great master-builder. So then we see that we've come down to the end of the trail as to humanity. And this thing is descending, this thing is descending from heaven. And these great wonderful jewels are beginning to place themselves together upon the foundation of the apostolic teachings, to come together as to that pyramid of that great All Seeing Eye which is Jesus, that capstone of Calvary that came crying grace, grace. And many things that we could just tell you there as to a kind of rehearsal of what we've already said in the past and refresh us as to those things to tie them together. But to bring it to this thought, why, why is is it that we do not recognize that with the coming of this knowledge and the coming of this understanding that there are also things that are as you would say materializing in the earth; that they are being put together in glory. And they are coming to a point of expose', and they are coming to a point of completion. Why is it that we do not understand that? And we think that we just come to church, had another message, learned a little more, and we're the same people, it's the same thing. I tell you that it has left a milestone, even tonight. And we are closer. And the Bible said, Your salvation is now nearer than when you believed. So when everything is right on the threshold of the change and the threshold of expose' and the threshold of coming. Let's stand together. Let's remember this because God hath indicted the world and charged it with folly. And it's about to lose all of it's stability and stabilization and fade away into nothing. For with the brightness of His coming it is completely eradicated. It disintegrates. It dissipates. It goes away into nothing. And as the morning star, or as that great morning star which is between that moon and the coming of that daystar which is called the sun, there is a little something taking place. And He is being revealed while the other fades away, and He alone the Bible said in that day shall be exalted. And from that bright and morning star comes forth the daystar which is of course His star also as to that light within you. So let's just sing a litle chorus together. The morning star came, the evening star, the bright and the morning star, the Alpha and Omega. And the morning star came and at Calvary broke and the veil was rent in twain. As to that little dark period between the going out of the old and the coming in of the New Testament. Then the star it was rooted and then it broke forth in the daystar as to the great light to bring this salvation of this time that we're living in. So I just enjoy the wonderful presence of God and the wonderful things of God because in His mind the change has already took place. In His mind we're already perfected. In His mind I am what I am by the grace of God. And we're just going on as to the tutoring of this, that this mind will reveal all of these things to you; for the wonderful Holy Ghost shall bring to your remembrance all of these wonderful truths to reveal to you that you might suddenly become aware that you are witting the redemption of your body as to the purchased possession. And that this great, wonderful light is breaking forth as to an understanding of what God has given us in Christ. And that with this all of a sudden death won't be seen anymore. Because the ordination of God is from death unto life as from the fall to the resurrection. And that death is God's enemy and God is eradicating it just as rapidly as you can conceive this wonderful life. And that the ultimatum of this eradication is the change into the celestial. And we're moving on as to the milestones, closer and closer to this wonderful breaking forth of this life from this little clay pitcher as to the dissipation of this body or the eradication of impurities within the body, as to the transformating as to the translation of the spirit, the transformating of mind and as to the transfiguration of the body that appears in glory because He hath called us to glory and to virtue. So then we can see that we're moving on and we're close to it now. And after a while there will be no more funerals. There will be no more caskets. There will be no more mourning over wayward loved ones and these kind of things, because you're moving on now, moving on as to generation to generation to where suddenly there you'll be to never die, to never go to sleep, to never be put in a casket, to never have the dirt thrown over you. And you will see that this has been the great mind of God revealed to you as to what you've always been in Christ. But that as you wit or comprehend the heights, depth, width and the length of this great, wonderful thing that God has done in Christ as to the grand finale of it or the grand finals as we say, the finishing of it, coming to those things, then all of a sudden there you are, and you find out that death was always God's enemy, and that He has fervently worked in our life to eradicate it, to loose His people or that which was His prize possession from the powers of darkness, to bring them out of the ignorance of intellectual reasoning of the old tree of knowledge of death into this great tree of life as to the light, the understanding as to the God family that you might be part of this family tree as to this life. But let's sing a little chorus together, can we Brother Taylor? (Sings) While we're singing the altars are open. (Sings) Can you lift your hands up to the Lord while we sing? Let's sing this little chorus together, Brother Taylor? (Sings) Can you lift your hands up, worship the Lord while we're singing and let Jesus come into your heart? (Sings) Sing that with me now. (Sings) Can you sing that? (Sings) Can you sing that with me? (Sings) Let's sing this little chorus together, can we? (Sings) While you got your hands up and your eyes closed, let's worship the Lord. The Bible said, Examine yourself and see if you be in the faith, so examine yourselves. See right now that you're in the faith, that you're loving the Lord and that you're walking on with Jesus. Giving our hearts completely unto Him, trusting in Christ Jesus to lead us. (Sings) Once again. (Sings) I'm going to ask Brother Tony if he will to come up and dismiss us. While Tony's coming search your heart, search your heart, see if you be in the faith. (Sings) Once again can you sing it with me? (Sings)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord