Free From The Curse

...world for a witness. And of course the translations have been blessed, even though we on the homefront have been very careless, very careless. But still as Paul said your faith is spoken of throughout the world; even as the Indian brother that's going back with a great testimony and numbers and numbers of others in India, preachers and laity alike. They are speaking of your faith and they praise you people and they are carried away with Little Bethlehem. Even the Indian brother, he said, I have never seen nothing like this in my life, Brother Pike. The message, he just went on and went on about the message, and said he'd like to have a library there to where he could just share the message with the brethren. And said the brotherhood the way that they are together. And Little Bethlehem he said, you know, he said, I've come and seen for myself and said it's just, he felt like there was no other place in the whole world like this. And it reminds me of the assistant Church of God overseer when Brother Lowery come down here and he saw the brethren, Brother T. L. Lowery, he said that he likewise had never seen anything like this as to the brethren coordinating and working together. But still folks, with all of that we are far from coordinating like we should coordinate. And we are far from working together like we should work together. We should have done at least and I say this with all reverence, respect, without exaggeration, so don't think I'm exaggerating, we should have done at least ten times what we've done. And I feel from the bottom of my heart that ten times would have caused us to fall way short of what we could have done and should have done for God as to the time period that we've been here. And you say, Well Brother Pike, you don't really believe that. My hand be raised to God. All liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire. I'll raise my hand to heaven. I believe soberly that we could have done ten times what we've done here and should have done. But nevertheless, because of unconcern and because of lethargy then that puts us in a precarious place, and especially me since I'm the shepherd. Millions, teaming millions of billions in the world today, aren't evangelized only to the extent of a little bit of here and there of us and someone else. And like our brother said, Even places there that don't even know about Jesus even in our day. It's like a little thing I heard where a man went through a village and asked someone, he said, Do you know Jesus? And the man answered him and said, No, I don't but he may live in the next village. So people don't know about Jesus, you know, like they need to know about Jesus. But anyway we're grateful for what you do do, what you do help us with. The way that you try to lift up our hands in world evangelism. But folks, it's no time to retire on God. It's no time to retire on God. We need to do something for God. One of these days you're going to be extremely sorrowful because you did not do something for Christ, and you would give all of your life if you could go back and undo it. Right now the things that you're doing seem so very important and they seem so needful, but they're so foolish. That's why the early church gave all that they have, including their hearts and souls to God Almighty. Because it seemed so important. But one of these days you're going to leave it to a fool or someone that will squander and you're going to be going over to the other side of the hill as we say, and then what? The Bible said, Lay up your treasures in heaven where thieves don't break through and steal, and where moth doesn't corrupt, for wherever your treasures are, there your heart will be also. If you're planning to live in California as I've said you need to ship everything over to California. If you're planning to live in Florida, you need to ship everything out to Florida. And if you're planning to live in heaven you need to lay up all your treasures in heaven. Wherever you're planning to spend your life in eternity that's where you need to be making your preparations. And in this world you're just passing through and there's not going to be much time spent here, so why make so many preparations for a place of such little stay. So then I want to do something for God. If I build a building I want to build it for God. If I buy land, I want to buy it for God. If I do anything during my whole lifetime, I want to do it for God. It was like I was telling Brother Steve Nunez last night, I had slipped on my robe and stepped there to the door and was talking to Steve and talking to Little Chris and talking to Chacho. And I was telling Steve he said something about the house being beautiful that we're building. I said, that's wonderful. I said, But you know Steve it makes me very sad if I have something that can't be used for Jesus. I said, If I can't use it for God then it is a burden to me and it makes me very said. I said, Because to me to do something for God is the all important thing. And there is nothing worthwhile to me if I can't do it for God. If I can't eat a meal for Christ, the Bible said, Do all things as unto the Lord, then I am very sad. If I can't live with my companion as unto Christ Jesus and according to His ordinances I'm very sad. If I can't use buildings and cars and land and my very breathe that goes in and out my nostrils for God, I feel very burdened, heavily burdened and very sad. And I can't get out from under it. Perhaps you can, but I can't. And I'm just literally crushed continually until I know that every intent of my heart, every impulse of my body, every reflex of my mind is toward Christ Jesus and for the Lord Jesus Christ. So everybody can do whatever they want too you know, but as for me and my house we'll serve the Lord. Tell you what, let's sing this little chorus. If I don't remember it Brother Taylor will. I noticed Brother William out there with us today. He was with us; it's been quite a while back he was with us. He came visiting with us a time or two, and it's sure good to look out there and see him again this morning. All right let's sing this. Give me another key, Frank. I want to read just a little bit over in the book of Genesis. If you've got your Bibles you can read with me. In Genesis the third chapter the fourteenth verse. (Reads Genesis 3:14-21) Now let's turn over to the book of Deuteronomy if you've got your Bibles. In the twenty-seventh and the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy, God is speaking to Israel and here's what He is saying. (Reads Deuteronomy 27:1-26; 28:1-19) Okay he goes on to say and I want you to listen real careful. (Reads Deuteronomy 28:20-61) All right now if you'll notice one of the things that he tells us here is because we serve not the Lord God with joyfulness of heart, giving Him praise for the abundance of all things. See people do not serve the Lord with joyfulness of heart. They come to church, they serve God and it's out of will worship a lot of times because they don't have any joy in sacrificing and fasting and prayer or giving to God or testifying for Christ or trying to come together in as we would say here the offices or the fields of activities for God. They don't have time to do anything for God. They're busy gossiping and backbiting and riding and doing all these contrary things that God spoke of, they're always busy, just literally wrapped up in all these things. And with the foolishness of ball games and education and money and all these things it's going to be a testimony against them in the day of judgment. And the things that are more needful they don't bother with these. As Jesus one time said to Martha and Mary, said, when Martha complained because Mary would not help with the housework, Mary sat at the feet of Jesus to learn these wonderful things and Martha kept complaining saying, Why doesn't Mary help me? And Jesus said, Martha, Martha, thou art cumbered about a lot of things, but Mary has chosen the better part, that which will not be taken away from her. And that's what I say to you this morning. See, them that are the Marys of God has chosen the better part and that that will not be taken away from them, but the Martha part, you're continually always after the things of the world, money, prestige, comforts, consolation, eating, drinking, all these things of the world, wanting to be important in the world, wanting some kind of position in the world when you know that you're going to die and you're going to leave every bit of it and be destroyed in hell. And you know that the people that's patting you on the back and giving you your diplomacies that you'll be right there with them in hell when you're gnashing on one another with your teeth. Because all of the way of the earth it's the same. When the great men of old laid down to die they said, I am going the way of all the earth, all of the earth. When you go to die don't feel bad about it because everybody before you with the exceptions of one or two that was translated or took out they died. Everybody died so you're not doing anything anymore than anybody else does. You know when your time comes to die, just be satisfied that you've had your opportunity. You could have done whatever you wanted too, and you picked what you wanted to do and you did it and you gave your life and your time and your strength to it. And when you have your wealth and all these things that mean so much to you that brought you the consolation as to a convenience of earth, then just remember all those things are a testimony against you. As it was the rich man when the Bible said, he lifted up his eyes, being tormented in the flames he lifted them up from hell and he said to Abraham, Abraham, Father Abraham, send somebody here. Let Lazarus come or someone to dip their finger in water and cool my tongue, said, for I'm tormented in these flames. But Abraham reminded him, he said, son, in your lifetime you had your good things, and Lazarus likewise the bad. Now Lazarus is no more poor. He's comforted now and thou art tormented. So then your riches the Bible said in that day that they'll throw their riches to the bats. They're cry for the rocks and mountains to fall on them. Why then do you desire to be rich? Whereas the Bible said, And thou oh man of God flee these things. For many following after these things have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But the Bible said, Fight the good fight of faith and lay hold on eternal life. And run with patience the race that is set before you. So then we know that God has placed before us a blessing and a curse. And he said, You chose this day whom you will serve. And as it has been with America she became a godly nation, a righteous nation, a God-fearing nation, and from the great, mighty men of old as to true statesmen, they have erected a momumental praise unto God of people and of government and now she is become probate. She is become whoremongers. She is become prostitutes. She's become dope addicts. She's become money hungry as to the gullible desires of everything that's contrary to God. She curses. She snorts. She backbites. She does everything underminding. And everything that I read to you here in this curse that they were not suppose to be that if they did would bring the wrath of God they are doing every bit of that. I can read it to you and there's not one thing that I can read to you but what I can name that they do it and almost tell you of somebody you of somebody that I personally know that does it. So then that means the curse is upon them. They cannot run to the hospitals and be taken care of. I keep telling you over and over they can't do that. There is no consolation as to running to the hospital. The Bible emphatically states there will not be any healing medicines. God has allowed hospitals and God has given the healing medicine. Healing medicine is not of man. It is not of preachers. It is of God. It is of God. These things are of God. And God has given these things that we might be partakers of them as to the benefit. And the people that does not have the ability to exercise faith that they might have a covert from the storms of afflictions during the time that God is sparing them on this earth. See so the Lord being good has done all these things for us. But folks, you can't hide your sins, you can't cover your sins. The Bible says, Be sure that your sins are going to find you out. And you can't go on with your evil practices doing the things that you know that's wrong and then run to the hospital to hide there in the hospital or to be taken care of by the medical powers of this world. What are you going to do when all of a sudden the saints of God go out of here? What I'm speaking to people in general? What are you going to do when the saints of God go out of here the Bible said there will not be any healing medicine. And that gross darkness will cover the world, and that all of the world will be in an intellectual ignorance of darkness that they cannot find their way. They cannot even perfect one little bottle of medicine. With all their geniuses as it would we would suppose it would be their intelligence their colleges and their schools, the Bible said they'll still be gnawing their tongues for pain and crying for the rocks and mountains to fall on them, even with all of their money, all of their prestige. All of the world is the same, all flesh has corrupted it's way before God. And not only here in America, but wherever it might be across the world people are sick. The whole mass of humanity is sick. And there is no possible way that anybody can stop this plague that's moving through the land. I heard a report in the last few days and it was about half of humanity whether nationally or internationally they were taken with a disease. About half and in one place five million people that had a terrible disease that the medical world says they don't even know about that the people don't even know that they've got it. See and on and on the plagues have come. The great plagues of God have come. He's poured out His wrath upon people and all because they won't serve God. America won't serve God. So then she has nothing but problems, always problems, some kind of problems. Her interior problems among her own people as to her youth and the elderly people. In the world to day that we call America the interior is rotten. It's rotten to the core. Everything is gone. There's no decency in America anymore. There is no government in America anymore. It's corrupt. It's in terrible shape. You can't tell anything about anything. Even the little thing that just arose about Thomas, putting him into Supreme Court up here, all of a sudden everywhere began to confess and made their confession as being there in the White House and all of this harassment as to men and women in their evil acts of debauchery and they're suppose to be the head of the nation. Can you imagine what kind of thing that that left as to an impression to the world concerning America and America's government, when we're suppose to be the head of all the nations? Can you imagine how low and degraded we are in the sight of people? Can you imagine what that means when I go into the foreign fields and experience the things that I experience? I've had people in the foreign fields that come to me and they say, I don't have any respect for America and they start talking about the terrible debauchery. I sat in India at the table when the lady that had the great mission there was telling the news men and people around the table just how bad America was and foreign newsmen in there. And I spoke up and I stopped her and there she set and told them how these things, some of them was talking about how that the things were planned as to different presidents having different people killed. And in the papers when I picked up the newspaper foreign news...(Tape 1 Side 2) There it was in broad letters, see saying how that our presidents had planned things that was murder to get people out of the way. And it just tore me up. But what could I say? On this Costa Rican trip while I was down there, I talked to a reporter that is a reporter from the Miami Herald out of Florida out of Miami. And he told me he said I don't respect America. He said I've been in the Green Beret. He said I've been in service and he told of his experience which was tremendous. He said and I always loved America. I always respected America. I always thought America was a great and a mighty thing, he said, but when they put me over there and I saw them come in in their scraping. And people that I had worked with there for numbers of years trying to help these people, and said, them trying to get to others scraped until they killed just about ever last one of them. People that had stood steadfast with America. And said, And then when they brought me a little thing to put inside of my hat to wherever where no one could see it, said it was a skull. And said they gave me this emblem to wear, and said and they told us it must be concealed. He said, I knew right then and there that America wasn't the good place that I thought it was. And he said, and I've lost my respect for it. That's one of your reporters that's with one of the biggest papers probably in the world. Now not only that but as he went on, as he continued on to tell me the things that he told me, I was absolutely flabbergasted as the world said as he tried to explain to me the conditions. He said, Brother Pike, he said we had two operations as to point B, point A and point B, and he said and when one of us went in to destroy said we were suppose to completely destroy, and if we didn't destroy then the other that came in behind us was instructed to finish the job. He said, I just don't have any respect for it. All right so why are you saying that? I am saying that the Bible says that righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people. And God has lifted us up and magnified us because the Bible said, He that humbleth himself shall be exalted, but he that exalteth himself shall be abased. And America has been just like Babylon when the old king walked around and said, Look what my hands have gotten thee. Look what I have done. And the Bible said as to it was in the days of the grandson when the writing was on the wall. So came the voice and God cut him down like a tree and fulfilled the prophecy of the great man Daniel, sent him out to the wild beast until he learned to give glory unto God. And the Bible said, All of these things come upon you because you serve not the Lord thy God with joyfulness of heart. For the abundance of all things, why don't we praise God? Why don't we love God? You know why? Because people have got exalted. They've got their colleges. They've got their schools. They've got their diplomacies. They praise ball players. They go after foolishness like a bunch of children, always talking about the braves and the dogs and all this kind of stuff, all like a bunch of little, bitty children. Paul said, When I was a child I acted like a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things. And the children of this world are going after those things and they're going to play with those things. And if that's what you're looking for is pride and prestige and the glamour and the sparkle of the world, then that means that you are a child of the world. The Bible said, Having the love of the world in you, the love of the Father's not there. If you love the world and the ways of the world and the people of the world and the things of the world, then you don't have the love of God. See, the Bible said, Lest you hate your life for my sake you can't be my disciple. Unless you hate your life. When you look back to the depraved side of life as to that you lived you better hate it. You don't want to think on it. You don't want to go back reminiscing. You don't want to go reveling back through those kind of filthy things. You've cut those things off, forget those things. Cleanse your mind out. Cast down imagination and bring everything into control to God, every thought to the obedience of Jesus Christ. And you hate that life and don't look back at that life and don't hang pictures on the wall of a cigarette hanging out of your mouth or painted lips and all this stuff of the world. Get rid of that thing. Tear it up. Do away with it if there's anything that projects something that's not right. It doesn't matter what it is. I see people take pictures of their sons and daughters in these kind of things you know, in bathing suits and hide them away and keep them or put them up here somewhere and hang them up here. You need to tear that thing up and get rid of that thing. You don't need that thing in your house. The Bible said, Moses was faithful in all of his house. See a curse. That's nothing to be happy over. That is filth. That is ugliness. That is the devil. And when you even hang that thing up in your house, you're hanging the image of the devil up in your house. You don't want to do that. You want to follow Christ. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, you must be eccentric. I'm not beside myself. Paul said, If I would be beside myself, it would be for Christ. I'm not beside myself. When I preached against such thing as the magazines that come in and even the things of books that you get from great stores where you purchase, all of these books are filled with filth as to models and all this stuff. And even to go into a store today to try to buy, manikins everywhere nude manikins, something to project lust and to project the devil and to put the thing over, to put thoughts in your mind, to bring you impressions or to bring you something that will cause you to go back to the lust of the flesh and to the old beast body. Everything from signs, your television programs, everything is polluted. What is it? It's the curse. That's why your wives are becoming prostitutes. That's why your daughters are becoming prostitutes. That's why your men are becoming whoremongers. Like the woman I repeat one more time. The paper published it a few days ago when these people that seem to have something from God come out from the other church, the leading church and said we're tired of going in bathing with mixed bathing suits as to man and woman, and we're tired of these of these worldly things as to painted faces, and we're tired of all of this prostitution and the different things that's going on in the world. And said, it is my conviction that we have this because of weak men and worldly women. Now, I was just pointing out to my companion over here in Colorado, a great big painting or some work of an artist where it showed the olden days of Colorado. And there as we stood I said, Look at those dresses, Betty. Look at those women dresses clear down to the ankle. Ladies, real frontier women, not only as to cover up their evil like a wolf in sheep clothing, but I'm talking about virtuous, holy, godly, pure women that was a real mother and a real wife, real understanding, real fidelity. Not as the Judas' of today called mother that sold out to a little tinklet for a diamond ring or to have a little money or some face that they can frolic with or some nice car to run around, not that kind of thing and not as the men of today. Those were real men. Men of courage and men of valor and men of concern and men that fought and spent their entire life trying to build a place in the early days so that mother and the children could be well taken care of, but not anymore. Dad is too busy you know with his frolics and his beer and his dope and riding around here and could care what mother thinks. And as long as she don't know it, he doesn't care because he's rotten to the bone. Rotten to the bone! That's where the problem is. They got a little saying out in the world and they go around saying they say, I'm bad to the bone! And I think you certainly are rotten altogether. That's well said, As I said before, the demons go around saying, Keep cool. Keep cool. And that's because they know they're on their way to hell. Play it cool, they say. I've been cool. They need to stay cool as long as they can, because when the blood comes off of the seat of atonement, they're going to be in the flames of hell and there won't be no place cool down there. All right maybe I sound a little bit indignant. Maybe I am a little bit indignant, but I don't feel that I am. Paul said, I am rude in speech, but not in knowledge. I say that the whole world, especially in America leading the way, the whole world is condemned in the sight of God. Someone would say, Brother Pike, The Bible said, God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that through Him the world might be saved. Now you didn't know I knew that Scripture too just like you do. I know that. So does that make you something great because you know that and you hear me preaching like this? Listen the Bible said that even though God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but He sent His Son into the world to condemn sin in the flesh. And folks, when you sin that sin is in the flesh and He condemned it and He nailed it all to Calvary. Every bit of it he nailed it to Calvary. He said, George Pike, this is what I think of you. Frank Taylor, this is what I think of you. Vince Murphy, this is what I think of you. I'm going to nail you to this cross and I'm going to pour out my wrath on you until I am completely satisfied. And folks, let me tell you, if it had not been for Jesus taking our place in having to suffer the pain and the misery as the wrath of God was literally poured out upon Him, today you would be so miserable you couldn't breathe. You'd actually die in misery. You couldn't breathe your breathe, would miserably be pressed out of you, until life was gone today as a human being. See, but Jesus took it. And the Bible said, His countenance was marred more than any man. His suffering was that scientist say that it's beyond words of expression. They say there is no suffering as great as when the fluids as begin to separate as to the little cells of the body. And in America today what have we got? Nothing but rot. Nothing but rot. All flesh has corrupted its way before God. And so then all of the rest of the world following after America, now all the world is corrupt. So the days of the Gentiles have come to an end. And God is fixing to bring His wrath upon all of them as to an ultimatum. The wrath of God is already upon them. See all these curses, he said, if you do not what I tell you to do, I'll bring all of these curses upon you. The hospitals are literally filled up. The insane asylums are literally filled up. The prisons are literally filled up with men and women alike. There is nothing but sorrows. Little girls are stollen away and little boys ravished and killed. Mothers and daddies in such a horrible condition. The report came just a few days ago said, if you're in Miami, Florida whatever you do, you women don't roll your window down. Said, Because when you stop at a stop light or whatever, said, they are actually reaching through the window and pulling the women out the window. And they're ravishing the little children and they're killing men and women. See and it and said that they have changed their way of doing it. Usually they approach at night, said, not anymore. Said, they're doing it in the day time. What is it? There is no safety anywhere. There is no protection anywhere. See, it's just a conglomeration of a mess. And though the statesmen of the world are trying to do something about it, they're not doing anything about it. Somebody said, Well I know somebody that is. There is not anybody doing anything. The Bible said in that day He alone shall be exalted. Everybody shall be put out of the picture and He alone shall be exalted in that day. Every person is going to look toward Jesus Christ. There's not going to be anybody or anything that can help them in that time. No healing medicines, the doctors are beginning to get sick. The doctors are dying off like flies. The reports are coming in that they can't even do something for themselves, let alone something for someone else. And even though the medical field still prevails to the extent that there is blood on the seat of atonement and God is still making allowance, still there's problems. It's like Sister Beachy that was down in Florida and something come up, and there the doctor as to the woman that was suppose to be helping her up and she goes out. She's dead. See and as to I went to visit with my daughter, and they wanted me to talk to a certain doctor there in the Carolinas and one of the leading medical men. I went over and talked to him. I talked to him for a little bit. Within a few days dead, he was gone. See we need Jesus, folks. We need God. We don't need the doctors. We need God. If a doctor can help you that's well. If momma can put a bandage on you that's well. If you can pour in the oil and the wine like the good man did as to the Samaritan, that's well. And if somebody can give you a meal when you're hungry that's well. But the thing is our faith is suppose to be in God and we're suppose to be walking with God and we're suppose to build this faith and contend for this faith, never stopping. But the world today has gone into retirement. But they say, we're waiting for the translation. After a while it's going to take place, Brother Pike. I'll telling you once again and you can take my word for it. Go to the Bible. Check my word against the Bible and you'll find out that waiting for the rapture as you call it will never take you out of this world. It will never do it. You can be as religious as you want too. You can belong to any organization that you want too. You can come to Little Bethlehem if you want too, but waiting on the rapture it isn't going to happen that way at all, not at all. It isn't going to happen that way. Judgment begins at the house of God. It's the minister that remits your sins. It's the minister that retains your sins. It's not the minister speaking but it's God within him. And he is given the authority to do this by the voice of God and by the act of God and doing all things as unto the Lord. And he himself is not alive as to the natural man, but it is Christ living within him. And the life he lives he lives by the son of God. And the place of the church is the court room of God; and the judge is there; and the things that God is doing is either remitting your sins or retaining your sins as to the faith that cometh by the hearing of the Word, as to how you receive this and what you do with it after that you receive it, as to whether or not you'll put it, incorporate it in your lifestyle or put it in your life. So that means that judgement is here. And the kingdom of God is not way off up here somewhere, nor the kingdom of God is not down here somewhere. And the Bible said, Say not in your heart who shall ascend into heaven to bring it down or go into the earth to bring him up? For the words is nigh unto you even in your mouth in your heart that a confession of the heart as to believe unto the righteousness of Christ Jesus, and a confession with the mouth as to the confession of your faith as to confess what God hath done for you in that they overcame Satan by the blood of the Lamb through the work of Calvary or that is by the words of their testimony. The work of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, they overcame. And today it's the same. But folks, America is under a curse. She is under a great and a mighty curse. Someone would say, Brother Pike, I don't believe that. Well that's because you are an unbeliever. She is under a horrible, hideous curse. God has never lifted her curse and never will He lift the curse from America or any other place in the world except through Jesus Christ. And unless you believe on the name of Jesus Christ, then that means that your constantly under the curse and under the wrath of God. For the Bible said, Without faith it's impossible to please God. And as long as you are in a condition of unbelief then the wrath of God is upon you. Now someone would say, But Brother Pike, I believe God. That's to be question. You say, But I know that I believe God. So does the devil believe there's a God. So what does that mean? The Bible said, If you believe there's one God you do well. So does the devil. The devils believe there's one God. But the Bible said, Will you know oh vain man that faith without works is dead. Your proof of believing is that you conform to God's way. And your proof of believing is that when you do the things that please God hereby you assure your heart, then do you have confidence with God that God hears you. And then do you know that you have the petition of God that you desire of Him. But if you do not the things that please God, then you're none of His. And the Bible said, If you have not My Spirit you're none of mine. And folks, if you do not the things that please God it's for sure you don't have His Spirit. Because the Bible said, God gives His Spirit as to the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost which is the Spirit of Christ, I give this to them that obey Me. And if you don't obey God you don't get the Holy Spirit. The Bible said, This eternal life is within His Son which is Christ which is the Holy Spirit. And the Bible said if you have not that Spirit you're none of His. And it says that if you have not that Spirit you don't have eternal life, because that eternal life is in that Spirit. Because there is no life in the flesh. There is no eternal life in the flesh. You cannot have life in the flesh. The flesh profiteth nothing. It come from the dust and it goes back to the dust. And only they that come from the other world will get this. Only they that are elect, only they that are the predestinated will get this. Paul preached to the people and then shook his raiment and he said, Your blood be upon your own head. And he said, Them that were fore-ordained unto life believed and the others that were before of old ordained unto condemnation, they did not believe, because these are ungodly men and women that are turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, bringing upon themselves swift damnation from God who hath warned them against these evil practices. So then we know that America is under a curse. Today if we are children of God, if we are genuinely born again, if we have God's Spirit within us, God will help us and God will lead us. And God will take us through the problems and the terrors of life, because God wants too. But to do this we have to believe steadfast without wavering in the things of God. For He is faithful that promised. He won't alter or change it. Even God cannot change His Word. I've said this to you before. Paul said, I'm persuaded to believe that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. And if God give the best thing, even His Son, that He's not going to withhold anything else from us. And He hath freely given us all things that pertain unto life, having given us these great mighty promises unto life that by these promises we might be partakers of the benefit of God. So then we're heirs and joint-heirs as to children. We're partakers of the benefit. God cannot alter His Word. It's settled in heaven. He cannot change His Word. Because swaring by no greater than Himself, He swore that blessing He would bless you and multiplying He would multiply you, and that He'd never change or alter the Word. You can rest with a steadfast assurance that there won't come another world, there won't come another trial, there won't come another time, there won't come another decision. When God gets disgusted with everybody and decides He doesn't want them anymore and start to doing things all over He cannot do that. It's utterly impossible. The one thing that's impossible to God is He cannot lie. It is impossible. It is impossible. See, God can't lie. It's impossible for God to lie. So you can rest with a steadfast hope as to His promise we are free from the curse. I am free from the curse. All of this thing that I read you in Genesis, all of this thing that I read to you in Deuteronomy, I am free from that curse. If you are born again, then you are free from that curse. That's why the Bible says that hath anointed the preacher. Jesus said, And the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. For God hath anointed me to preach this gospel to the poor and to bind up the broken hearted and to preach liberty to the captive, to set free those that are in prison. He hath called me to do that because people are bound. People are in prison. People are broken hearted. People are in the environment and in the confines of Lucifer. And the Word of truth sets them free. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. To have faith in the Word of God, to hear the Word of God. He that God sendeth will speak God's Word. And Jesus said, As my Father hath sent me, so send I you. Whosoever sins that you remit shall be remitted. Whosoever sins that you retain shall be retained. Whatever you bind on earth, I'll bind. And whatever you bind on or in heaven or loose other in heaven or earth otherwise I will loose it, he said. I will bind. I will loose according to what you say. Whatever you say you can have if you decree it in your heart, don't doubt it, it'll come to pass. Whatever things you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and ye shall have them. Say what you will, God said, and I'll bring it to pass. For I'm the Lord God that forgiveth all of thine iniquities and I heal all of thy diseases. So then it is the Lord God that is with us. It is the same God that is the same to a thousand generations. And if we're born again, then we're delivered from the curse. All of this is a curse and Jesus became a curse for us. The Bible said, And cursed is everyone that hangeth upon a tree. And he hanged upon the tree to take the curse that you might not be under poverty, that you might not be under sickness, that you might not be under death, that even though people die and are still put in casket, God took away the curse to where you do not have to die, you've already passed from death unto life. And Paul said, Behold, I show you a great mystery, we shall not all sleep but be changed. In that the Bible said this body is the purchased possession. Or He did purchase this body of this physical being at Calvary, and that He is interested in the physical being if it be the body of the Lord Jesus as to bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And this is the purchased possession and God will bring it to the adoption and to the change. But right now while we're waiting for the adoption, we've got to come understand that death is the enemy of God, and God sent Jesus. He was manifested to destroy the works of the devil of sickness and sorrow and poverty and heartaches and broken heart and all these kind of things. And he sent Jesus to completely eradicate to destroy to do away with the works of the devil. And today we're free from the works of the devil. We're free from the curse. And today we are not under the law because the law is folded up and laid away. And the curse was cursed is every man that continueth not in the law to do all that the law has said. So the law being fulfilled Jesus fulfilled it, folded it up and laid it away and today we're free from it. He said, Think not that I've come to destroy the law but rather to fulfill it. The Bible said, It'll not pass until every jot and tittle is fulfilled. So He fulfilled every jot and tittle. And He said, Father, it is finsihed. He folded it up and laid it away. And then our great, wonderful overseer Paul the Apostle to the Gentile church said, We therefore conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. So then Christ the great Holy Spirit that fulfilled all of the righteousness of the law while he resided in the body of Jesus has now put off that garment and come into my life and now that righteousness is Christ within me the hope of that wonderful glory of God. In that He alone was made heir to the glory. So then that means that we are free from the curse. I'm free from the curse. You're free from the curse if we walk with the Lord, if we are born again, then the devil hath no power over us, and God has delivered us from him that is stronger than we are which is Satan, bringing us out of the powers of darkness and translating us into the marvelous kingdom of light. But folks, the Bible teaches that we are to walk circumspectively in the light, to walk in the light as He is in the light, that we might have the fellowship of God and that one with another. And that is we walk in this light that God's blood is through Jesus Christ, God Himself having a human body. That His blood through Jesus Christ will cleanse us from all of our sins. All right so the world is cursed today and you are the blessed ones if you be the child of God. But if you have not His Spirit you're none of His. You might be religious. You might be a believer. You might belong to this church or another church whatever church it might be, but the thing is whether you be a believer or not, if you don't have His Spirit you're none of His. Paul said at the nineteenth chapter of Acts the upper coast of Ephesus, having met certain disciples of John he said, Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? And they said, We've not so much as heard whether there be a Holy Ghost or not. He said, under what baptism then was you baptized? Some of you could say the wrong way today. But he said, being baptized unto John or unto repentance by John, saying believe on the name because it's coming. And sure enough John saw Him and said, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. Remission of sin is now in His name, in that He has died for the remission of sin, and there's none other name given under heaven whereby man must be saved. It is absolutely necessitated to your life here your welfare here and your eternal security to be baptized in Jesus name. To repent of your sin, the Bible said, everyone of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and then you'll receive the Holy Ghost as the gift of the Holy Spirit. For it's unto you and unto your children and to as many as be afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call, beginning at Jerusalem and then to the uttermost parts of the earth. Remission shall be taught in His name. And baptism is for the remission. As my Father has sent Me, so send I you. Whosoever sins you remit shall be remitted. Whosoever sins you retain shall be retained. And Peter said, Repent and be baptized for the remission of sin. And Peter said, As to the days of Noah, water the like figure whereunto baptism does also now save us. And Jesus said, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. And as to the crucifixion and the death Paul said, As many as been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. So it's very evident that we need to repent of our sins and be baptized or buried with the Lord Jesus. And in that we are buried with Him in death and baptism we are resurrected in the newness of life and old things have passed away. And behold all things are become new, and we are now a new creature in God. So we should hate that life, hate that world, and never go back to it and bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ, casting down the imagination that harasses our mind. So we're not under the curse. We are children of light. We're children of freedom. We're children of deliverance. God has given us that wonderful, wonderful deliverance in Christ Jesus and you are completely free today. And we need to testify of that freedom and stand fast in our liberty wherein God has made us free to be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage of the old intellectual reasoning and doubt and frustration of this world. And of the gullible desires of being like the image of the beast. I don't want to be like the image of the beast. I want to be like Jesus. That beastly image as to Adam, in Adam all die. That's gone at Calvary. And today I am a new creature, resurrected. Having been delivered for my offenses, He was raised for my justification; and today I am on the raised side for I am one with the Lord Jesus. Having known Him after the flesh, I know Him no more as that that went to Calvary as to shame, but I know Him as the resurrected one that triumphed over all principalities and powers and made an open show then in my behalf. And today I am resurrected from the dead with Him, and I am alive. And as He said, I once was dead but now I'm alive forevermore. And I'm one with Him. If I'm heir and joint-heir with Him, then if He's the resurrection and the life, so am I the resurrection and the life. Joint-heir means that whatever he...(Tape 2 Side l)... if He was the body of Almighty God then am I the bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. If He overcame and set down in the throne, so have I overcome and set down in the throne. If He ate of the hidden manna so have I eaten of the hidden manna. If He is the power and the resurrection and the life, so am I the power and the resurrection and the life. If His Father sent Him to remit sin so do I remit sin. If He hath the power of deliverance and the power to bring health and happiness back to people, so then I am joint heirs with Him. And this is my privilege, and so then we should walk circumspectively. We should walk like children of God. We should be about our Father's business and completely eradicate every impurity from our life to be holy in body and in spirit. Let's stand together. It's needful that we be holy in body and in spirit. And folks, I remind you once more that if you're in the light and walking in the light, you'll have fellowship one with another. If you don't have this fellowship, you don't have the life because the Bible says, You know that you've passed from death unto life because you love the brethren. And the light is the understanding of God as to wisdom. When this knowledge of wisdom the writer says becomes sweet to your soul, then do you have the victory as to the desires of your heart, then ye shall ride upon the high places of the earth, then God will feed you with the heritage of Jacob, and then will God make all of your beds in the time of your sickness, and then will the blessing of the Lord maketh rich and add no sorrow. Because you serve not the Lord thy God with joyfulness of heart, for the abundance of all things these plagues have come upon you. Why not serve the Lord? And why not be joyful over doing it? I just delight in the Lord. I delight in His way. I delight in His way. I delight in His Word. Even when He cuts across the grain as to my own life I rejoice. I say, I love you Jesus. I thank you for that chastisement. I thank you for that correction. And oh Lord, help me to honor thee and love thee for I love you with all of my soul, with all of my mind, with all of my strength, with all of my ability, I love you Lord. I love the Word. The Word is God. I love it. I love it. It is spirit and it is life to them that can believe. So then I love it. To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus, on earth I long to be like Him. Let's sing that little chorus. (Sings: To Be Like Jesus) Can you sing that with me? (Sings) Can you sing it one more time with me? (Sings) Let's sing this little chorus, Brother Taylor. (Sings: Thank God There's A Bridge Over the River) Sing that with me. (Sings) Sing that with me. (Sings) Sing it again. (Sings) One more time together. (Sings) One more time. (Sings) Let's give him a hand, can we? Somebody say, Hallelujah! Praise God! Don't you feel real good in the Lord, knowing that you're going to live forever and knowing that you've passed from death unto life, that you can never die and never come into condemnation, that you're not under the curse? Sickness is gone. When you think of sickness, no matter what kind of affliction that you feel in your body, no matter what kind of impression these human senses seem to tell you, that's not true. See, someone would say, Well Brother Pike, can I make a confession of something that I don't have? Of course not. But didn't the Bible say that God hath given you all these things in Christ? Can you then say that you don't have it? Only the unbeliever. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody would say, Well you mean to tell me that I am to confess something that I don't see and I don't naturally feel? Of course, why not? Didn't Solomon say all this that you naturally see and feel is lying vanities? Do you want to be a creature as to a bonds child? Doesn't the Bible teach that the Word of God is the only thing that's truth, and let every man be a liar including the doctors and the professors and your neighbor and anybody else that tells you the Word of God isn't true, as to say that God did not give you these things, and God did not deliver you? Am I to confess the truth or speak the truth? Someone would say, Well if I say I'm healed and I'm not healed, then I would be a liar. And you certainly would. But if I say I'm healed and I am healed because the Word of God says I'm healed, then I confess the truth. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody say, Hallelujah! All right so then we are they that walk not by sight but by faith, confessing those things that spoke the world into existence and that created us. And that means that we are free from those things. You are children of liberty and you are free from those things, and we should be enjoying the full abundance of life because God said concerning Jesus, He's come that you might have and that more abundant, which means filled up and overflowing. And if we be children of God, then He doesn't withhold any good thing from us; and we make the confession of His Word because we don't walk by sight but by faith, calling those things that are not as though they are. When I say are not as to they are not to the sight or the hearing or the feeling of this body and world of lying vanities. But they are as to the wonderful Word of God that's unaltered and unchanged to every generation. And this Word is the Word the cornerstone of all of eternity of the universe. And this wonderful stone He hath laid in Zion that whosoever falleth upon this stone shall be broken. But upon whomsoever it falleth it shall grind him to powder. They that believe upon Him shall not be ashamed. So then it's very obvious that we are children of God and we're walking by faith, calling those things that are not as though they are. And if God said it, that settles it. That's the way it is. And there's nothing to add nor take away. Let's give Him another hand, can we? Somebody say, Hallelujah! Don't you feel that liberty and freedom in God? The curse is gone! The curse is gone! We're chldren of liberty! The curse is gone! You're not striving to get out from under the curse. The curse is gone! You're already out from under the curse. Somebody say, Hallelujah! Praise God! Looking for that wonderful, wonderful Christ. Hallelujah! Give me a key, Frank. (Sings: Give Me That Old Time Religion) Can you sing it one more time? (Sings) One more time. (Sings) Can you give him a hand? Somebody say, Hallelujah! Let's lift our hands up and praise the Lord. It's wonderful to be here this morning and feel the presence of God and know that we do have the old time religion. And the Bible said, Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this that you visit the widows and the orphans in their afflictions and then keep yourselves unspotted from the world. And this of course is what we want to do. The Bible said, Come out from among them and be a separate people and touch not the unclean things and I will receive you, saith the Lord. Let's just lift our hands up together and sing this little chorus. (Sings: I Will Praise Him) Can you praise Him? (Sings) One more time together now. (Sings) Praise Him now. The Bible said, With joyfulness of heart, for the abundance of all things; and as you do believing in the Word, praising the Word, praising God sickness will flee away. And if you serve me I will take sickness out of your midst and I will allow none of these things to come upon you, even the botches of Egypt, of those things that I brought upon Egypt. To serve the Lord God with joyfulness of heart. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, into His courts with praise, just love Him and feel His Spirit, and the Holy Ghost that you feel poured out upon you will drive all sickness away, all demons away, and you'll find yourself healthy and whole, prosperous and being blest. While you got your hands up, let's sing it one more time and worship God. (Sings) Will you praise Him? The Bible said, Examine yourselves and see if you be in the faith, faith coming by the hearing of the Word. And so then if you believe in the Word then you're in the faith. The Bible said, In the later time many shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils having their conscience seered by a hot iron. But you can believe in the Word. And folks, believing in the Word is liberty. Believing in the Word is life. Believing in the Word, serving God is joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost. Are you happy over your experience with God? Are you glad that you are a Christian? Serving God is joy. If you don't have joy, you don't really have God's Spirit. You should have joy. When you really believe and trust Him with your heart, you'll just lift the load, it'll go away, and everything will be just right and you'll be rejoicing. Your hearts will be so happy. You'll be running over with this abundant life. David said, Filled up and running over. My cup is filled up. And if your cup isn't filled up and running over, you need to lift your hands to God, let your heart and faith go out to God and ask God to be with you. Pray the prayer of faith. The prayer of faith shall save the sick. If they've committed any sins it shall be forgiven. From your heart pray that prayer of faith. Believing in the Word of God when you pray, believe. If you desire anything when you pray, you believe that you receive it, ye shall have it. For God has taken away your sin. And folks, what can you do? The Bible said, that He gave this to you while you were yet in your sins, and while you were yet sinners, Christ died for you. If you didn't do anything to obtain it, what makes you think you can do anything to keep it? It's the predestination of God. (Sings) Elect according to the foreknowledge of God, given to us in Christ before the world ever was and brought to light through the preaching as to the rent veil of Calvary. And today you are partakers by faith and you must do the thing to convince your heart so that you'll have a clear conscience with God, that you might be partakers of the wonderful benefits of God that He's given to them that love Him. For He gives the Holy Ghost to them that obey Him and faith worketh by love. And God is love. The more you trust in His love, the more you believe in His love like a little child, the more you're going to be strengthened in your body. For God is love and abundance of love. Why can't you believe? That love should encourage you to rest completely in Him which is faith working by love. (Sings: I Will Praise Him) One more time together. (Sings) I'm going to ask Brother Pasdon to come if he will and dismiss us this morning. While he's coming, let's worship the Lord. Lift your hands up. If the yoke isn't broke off of you, it should be broke off of you. The Bible said, Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. And if you're not free this morning, that means you didn't listen to the truth. But if you listen to the truth, then you know the curse is gone. You know that God has taken away your sins. And the Bible said, You keep yourself and the evil one touch you not. And God sealed that inner man until the day of the redemption of that body which is the purchased possession as to the change that is close at hand. So lift your hands up, pour your hearts and minds and spirit out to God. Don't have a reservation of heart. Don't wonder about what you can do or what you haven't done or what you're going to do, but lift your hands up, lift your soul up to God and completely fall prostrate on Him at His feet saying, My God there's nothing good in the flesh. My God there's nothing I can do, but you did it all at Calvary and I'm believing you and I'm trusting you, and I feel your Holy Spirit purging and cleansing my soul. I have eternal life. I can tell that that Spirit is here. It's quickening my mortal body. I feel that power of deliverance. And dear God, this is once and for all to never be changed. I'm never going to look back into Egypt. I'm never going to turn back into Egypt in my heart. I'm headed for Canaan. Hallelujah! Somebody say, Hallelujah! Let's sing it one more time together, Brother Taylor. (Sings: I Will Praise Him) Can you sing that with me?

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord