World Power

I want you tonight to try to get right into the Spirit of the Lord with us just as much as you can, and as we teach here tonight keep your mind__ It's a good idea to keep your eyes right on the board. Peter said one time, look on us. And in this case try to look on the board. Keep your mind right on the board, and your eyes right on the board, because sight is powerful, and with this you are able to keep your mind right on Jesus. And by that token the Bible said on the day of Pentecost they were all in the one mind of Jesus Christ, and the one accord to do the will of the Father, and when they got all of their minds into one mind, which is the supreme mind, then God came down from heaven and He began to talk with them. So then, that's what we'd love to do tonight. We'd love to able to get our minds right on God. Now, there's one or two things that I didn't get on the board tonight. I might not teach on all of this tonight, I don't know. It just depends on how the Spirit of the Lord leads, but there was still one or two things I wanted to get on and I didn't get back out here in time to get them on there. But anyway, we'll go with what we've got here. Now then, the first thing we'd like to do is just read a little Scripture here on what we're going to try to do, and from that we'll go right on over to the teachings, and see if we can get right in to the Word of God. Now, let's just read right over here, and this will kind of give us a toe hold. In the book of Daniel, over in the second chapter. If you've got your Bibles turn and let's everybody read together tonight. If you want to take your coats off go right ahead and be comfortable. I think one of the most, one of the worse things I know of is to be uncomfortable in the house of God, and certainly Satan seeks to make you uncomfortable. The house of God is the most miserable place in the world when God's Word and Spirit is not present, because you have to press your way into the kingdom of God, and naturally the carnal mind is enmity to God according to the Bible, and the oppressing powers are there because the Bible said when the sons of God came to present themselves before God that Satan came also. So you know that Satan is here tonight just like the sons of God are, but the thing is, we want to press in. The Bible said we press our way into the kingdom. We want to press in tonight to see if we can find out just where we are living. Every revelation brings us to the end and shows us the end of the world. We want to press in and see just where we're living, and find out just how close the end of time really is. Now if we can get into it tonight you'll see that it's a lot closer, perhaps, than a lot of you think. How many of you remember the message the other night just before we went in to our teaching when we preached on the sign of the son of man appearing in heaven? that it had already happened. All right. How many? Is that all that remembers the message? All right. In the book of Daniel over in the second chapter, if you've got your Bibles I would love for you to turn and read with me. All right. It says here in the twenty-sixth verse maybe, or twenty-seventh verse. I think the twenty-sixth. We'd better start at the twenty-sixth of the second chapter of the book of Daniel. "The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? Daniel answered in the presence of the kind, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the vision of thy head upon they bed, are these; As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass thereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass." Now before I read any farther I want to ask you a question. Do you know why that God allowed the king to forget his dream? You know why God let him do that? Because if he had not forgotten his dream and Daniel had not told him what the dream was the king would not have believed the interpretation of the dream. But inasmuch as Daniel was able to tell him what the dream was when he didn't know, then there was no doubt in his mind but what Daniel had told him the truth about the rest. So then, God wanted him to believe that dream. He wanted to establish it. So then, He says right here in the thirtieth verse, "But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king." All right. Now notice. The little stone that was hewn out, it said it smote the image about it's feet that were iron and clay. Now then, I'm going to ask my boy Ricky here if he'll go down there with the others. He wants to set up here and I know he'd enjoy it. It's a little crowded out there, but it's hard for me to keep my mind on the Lord if somebody is right here at me. I feel their spirit the whole time they are near me, and it makes it real difficult. I don't even like for ministers to set on the platform. I do let them sometimes, and they do that but I don't like for them to unless it's really necessary. All right. Now, before we get into this image I want to talk about something else if the Lord will let us. We might have to start with the image; I don't know. It's possible that we might have to start with the image. But I'd love to start with something else if I could, because I'd love to wait and get on to the image a little bit later. Now then, if you haven't drawn your chart I'd love for you to go ahead and draw what you can of it, and then as God begins to speak to us__ Well, we'll go ahead and take what the Lord shows us, and then if you don't get all of your chart right then you can get the rest of it later. But, I want you to notice first of all right in here it says, Jesus preparing a place. And remember we're teaching tonight. We won't be jumping and doing like we do when we preach, but you know how it's been for the last few nights. We just talked to you. You have to concentrate and get right in the mind of the Lord Jesus. So it says here, Jesus preparing a place. Now, when we think of the Lord Jesus preparing a place the first thing that we think of over there where He said, I go away I shall prepare a place and then I'll come back again to receive you unto my own that where I am there you may be also. And truly that's what the Lord meant, but as I said last night on the tape, we failed to remember that Jesus did not go where the average mind, or the natural mind, would place Him. When we think of heaven, we think of heaven way up yonder somewhere above the world and way up in the elements, and that's our actual frame of mind, because we know that heaven is an elevated place. But when the Bible speaks of being caught up it's just like the rich man and the poor man. They are all here in the same world, but the thing is that there is really two different worlds, because the rich man is elevated so much that he is raptured up into a place that the poor man cannot attain unto. So it's the same way. The Bible speaks of the kingdom of God being among men. The Bible said the kingdom of God is within a man's heart. So then, the kingdom of God being within a man's heart the Bible said that the kingdom of God has suffered violence ever since the day of John. For the law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached. Men has pressed their way into it, and it has suffered violence because we are the tabernacle of God that's among men. Over in the book of Revelation John said, Behold, I saw the tabernacle of God. We taught it last night, how that we are the tabernacle of God, lively stones, and the world around us sleeps because they fail to discern that we are the tabernacle of the living God. And that God walks within us, and God talks within us, and God tells us of His glory, and shows us wonderful things. Now, if they could discern the body of the Lord Jesus many of them would not sleep because the Bible said He sent His Word and healed them. And if God is in His temple, and if God is, collectively speaking, making His Word flesh like He did individually in Jesus then there has to be glory and healing and power in the name of Jesus, and in the tabernacle of God which is among you tonight, and set there as many members. So then, the Lord Jesus is among us and there is healing, and there is power in His body. Now then, it says here that Jesus is preparing a place. When we think of Him preparing a place, He said, I go away to prepare a place, and I'll come back to get you. But when we think of Christ going away to prepare a place we think of a place way off in the heavens somewhere according to our natural minds. But the Bible said that God has chosen us out of this world. He has chosen us out of this world and we are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring, or the restitution of all things. And so then, we are now in heavenly places. The angels of God are among us and the kingdom of God is within us, and last night we tried so hard to explain how, as the song says, that there is a river of life flowing out from for me. As the song said, I found a new place in the heavenlies. And then there is another one that says, I now belong to the glory of Your unveiled face. I'm changed, as the Bible said, from glory to glory, from faith to faith, from revelation to revelation until I come into the fullness of the image and the stature of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then, where are we tonight. If we've been born again we are in heavenly places with Almighty God, and the angels of the Lord encamp round about them that love God and fear Him. So the angels are here and the heavenly Father is here, for He said where two or three are gathered together in my name there shall I be in the midst. So when we see heaven it's not way off over yonder somewhere, but heaven is at hand. The kingdom of God, and it said the kingdom of heaven, too, it is at hand. It's is now present. Even though you don't see it; yet it is a matter of translation. You are translated, just like in the Garden you were perverted. Let's start right here. The whole theme of God when He was speaking to mankind, here in the Garden__ When God placed man in the Garden if you'll notice, the first thing that Eve did just before the fall was that she disbelieved God's Word. And there's but one sin and that is the sin of unbelief. And so then, she disbelieved God's Word. When she disbelieved God's Word she became doubled minded, and the Bible said a doubled minded man is unstable in all his ways. One minute you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ the next minute you believe in fear and frustration. One minute you say yea and amen to the promises of God, the next minute you are doubting and you are reasoning. One minute you're trying to live according to the knowledge of Christ, the next minute you are walking after your own feeble frame of mind. So it was with Eve right here. Having never been made into the likeness of God, as far as going through the proper channel that would make her eternal she could do nothing else but what God had put her in there to do. God knew that when he put Adam and Eve in the Garden they were going to fall. He put them there for that purpose. He also knew__ The Bible said He creates the good and He creates the evil, and He has His way in the good, and He has His way in the evil. He knew they were going to fall. And Paul brings it out in his writing. Paul said the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly but by reason of Him who subjected the same in hope. Now, according to the Bible the creature of God is good. Every living creature of God is good. No matter if it's a drunkard, if it's a harlot, whatever it is the creature of God is good. And Jesus died on the cross to take away the sins of all the creatures by becoming a sinful creature. Even though He knew no sin; yet He was made sin that all the creatures of God might be clear of the transgression, and in the day of judgment there would be no sin charged against the creature, which is the body. But He said the soul that sinneth shall surely die. Now then, He knew that He had made the creature subject to sin, and that He was responsible for the sin that the creature had committed inasmuch as the creature was brought into existence by Him, and the creature had nothing to do with the subjection to vanity. But God knows one thing, that when it comes to the soul of mankind, or to the will of mankind, man doesn't have to sin. He can either leave it alone, or he can do what He wants to. Like the Bible said, let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be abased. Half of the people spend their time asking God to keep them from being afraid, asking God to keep trouble out of their heart, when Jesus said for you not to let your heart be troubled, and for you not to let your heart be afraid. Be not afraid of sudden fear. For you to live such a life that you can control your faith. The Bible said faith cometh by hearing and hearing cometh by the Word of God. But James said faith is made perfect by work, and Paul, I believe it was, said, This we wish even the perfecting of your faith. So then, if we would do more for God, get out of the Laodicean state of lukewarmness and put more effort behind our labor, then our faith would be more perfect toward God. We'd have confidence in God and we'd get what we ask of Him. So then it's up to us. We're in the drivers seat and it's up to us. Now, I made the statement here the other night that man had one power in his life, that's all. I want you to get this thought tonight that God creating three minds He has given humanity one mind, and that is a mind, that of necessity, because of the things that God has created around him. Man is purged with necessity. That's why he has to have a mind that will acquaint him with the necessities and will move him according to necessities through life. That is, he is an individualist to the extent that God doesn't interfere with his life at all. Now then, if a man gets healing__ I made the statement today that if a man gets his healing, then the thing that he has to do is remember that this body is nothing more than a mass of atoms. Not just being able to define everything, there he is in this world. They say everything is matter except that which takes up space, and they say that that is energy. And energy changes the form of matter. So then, if our body is a mass of atoms, or a mass of molecules, and the Bible bears it out, so then, if that be true and if Satan is the prince of the powers of the air, and if he can come in and pervert the form of matter, then he can cause distortion, or disturbance in the creation of God. That's why we have storms. God sends us rain. God sends us the cool gentle breeze. God sends us the sunshine, but Satan gets in the elements and causes confusion, and causes storms to come and tear up our land. It's the same way within our heart. Storms come in our life because of the same thing. So then, you and I as sons of God are suppose to be able to control the heavens. We're suppose to be able to control the weather. We're suppose to be able to control our functions, and our thoughts to bring every thought into subjection to the mind of the Lord. Now. Scientists have their theory of mind over matter, and as far as this world is concerned they've got a pretty good theory. But really, they've got the wrong mind. Man's mind is not the mind that's over matter. It's not man's mind; it's Christ's mind that's over matter that can change the form of matter. But the natural people of this world they've gotten on to a clue and they are getting close. But we, as children of God, we're not going to get close, but we're going to find the thing that God has got for us. They've learned that if they can change the course of molecules in the wood that's laying around that they would have gold. It would make gold. Now then. We have the mind of Jesus Christ. The Bible said let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who being made in the form of God thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God, though He could take it upon Himself to make of Himself no reputation, but just humbled Himself, condescended to men of low estate. But the thing is, we have the mind of Jesus Christ. We are sons of God, and we're born to control mass matter someday and just do it anyway that we want to. So then, your body, if there is sickness within your body the Bible said He sent His Word to correct the perversion, or the distortion that's in your body by perversion, and to change the mass of matter around to it's original form by eliminating the spirit of perversion, which is Satan and his evil power that causes a body to be crippled, or cause it to be sick, or cause it to be full of fear. So now, God cannot come into your body. There's no way that God can come into your body unless you open the door of faith to God. God does not intervene in man's matters. God stands off in the distance, and when man turns his believing toward God then God comes into his heart and the Spirit of God drives out the spirit of perversion that has rearranged the molecules of your body. And He arranges it back into it's proper form, and he finds himself happy and straight with God. Now then, as I said a little bit ago, there is three minds. One of them is a Satanic mind of angelic being, one is God's mind, both of them being spirit, and one is man's. Now, man doesn't have any power over his mind only in this sense. It's like the man setting in a car, the automobile is in neutral, and he has one power of life, and that power is to desire the right thing, or the wrong thing. All he can do is just desire. He desires the right thing, or the wrong thing, and from that he can do no more. Like the man that pushes the car into a forward gear, then he has no more control over it except the steering. It's going in it's direction. If he pushes it in a backward gear, in reverse, then he's going backward. And so it is that God, knowing this, God had placed within our power what we call the faith of Jesus Christ. Now then, if I have no power over my life except just to believe, if there is no more power other than just to believe, or to desire, then I'm a helpless creature except I've got God in my life. The Bible said the preparation of a man's heart is from God, which means He prepares your heart unto destruction, or He prepares your heart unto eternal life, and He prepares it according to your desire. If you desire good, then all right. If you desire evil, then God will prepare it for the destruction. You have no more power over it after that. So then, it's mind over matter, but it's not man's mind over matter. If you want to get this body for a gift from God that you might preserve it eternally then before your death prepare the mind of Jesus in your heart, develop the mind and nature of Jesus Christ and you'll be able to change this body just like Jesus did when He stood on the mountain and transfigured His body. Paul said, Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we all shall be changed. And it's in this age that we're going to be changed. I believe that as much as I believe I'm standing here on this platform, and I believe I can prove it from Genesis to Revelation. So then, notice right here. The thing that happened to man was that having these three minds Satan, working to get try into man's mind to control him, caused God to have to withdraw from man's mind. Now then, at the cross God came back into man's mind, and Satan had to withdraw from man's mind. That is, the Christian, the true believer, because man's mind is nothing more that a mind of necessity. Remember that. That it just has a mind to see houses and lands and cars, and to get up and to go to bed, and go to work and come home. That's all he knows. But, Satan, which wonders in the dry places, he has no life from God so he has to get into man. He can get a temporal inspiration from God through man through the allotted lifetime that man has to live. So he comes into man's mind, and then God comes into man's mind. And you remember the chart we drew the other night showed where the battleground was and where the fight took place in the human soul, and how they met each other on the battleground, right there. We can't go into all of that. But anyway, I said that to get to say this, that the thing that happened to Eve right here was she disbelieved God's Word. Her faith dropped on her. When her faith dropped on her then Eve fell from the presence of God. Adam fell from the presence of God, and Adam being her head was charged with her sin. We could say a lot about that tonight, but anyway Adam being her head was charged with her sins. Though the Bible said the man was not found in the transgression but the woman was; yet He charged the man with it, because the man is the head of the members of the body. So then, what happened was Satan perverted the creature of God, and turned the creature of God toward the water, the blood, and the spirit, which is the witnesses in this world. It caused his angel which is the human spirit to turn in the wrong direction, and turn away from the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. as the Bible speaks of it in heaven, (These three are one.) to turn away from the eternal inspiration, which is the Father, Word, and Holy Ghost, and turn toward the water, blood, and spirit, which was a temporal inspiration of coming for food, and fellowship, and relationship, and ball games, and all such, in the earth. Now then, we preached on that the other night, you remember. But the thing is that when Eve turned away from the Word of God, which was eternal inspiration, she had to be kept alive by the temporal inspiration. God did that to process them, like we preached the other night, to manifest His attributes to man, to bring man into a oneness with God at the end of the way to make man eternal. Now then, the thing is He kept them alive until the fountain was opened in the house of David that we spoke of the other night, which was the eternal fountain. Now then, before God can switch man over from water, blood, and spirit, back to the Word of God, then He has to bring man to a certain place, or a certain level. In other words, it's not a matter of his appetite, even though his spirit is kept alive by his appetite, and so through temporal inspiration, but the thing is, it's his faith. Remember, faith orbits around the word of truth. How many of you know that? Faith orbits around the Word of God. When the Word said, Thou shalt surely die, they educated every generation to death. And when Jesus came and said man shall live, all we've got to do is educate the generations to life and we'll be eternal again like we were in the Garden. The Word is created in man's spirit and it is Spirit wherever you find it. So then, it was her unbelief that started orbiting around the words of truth and caused her, and all of those generations to die. Now then, when Jesus changed it to give us eternal inspiration then He started us in a way to where we can start orbiting around the Word of God, and praising God and having faith unto eternal life. But he cannot switch us over from water, blood and spirit back to the breathe of life that He said man had to live by until He can wean us just like a baby from the breast. And this He's got to do. Just like a baby feeds from the naval cord of a mother until after it's birth, then the naval cord is done away and you begin to feed it by the breast. And then from that you begin to feed it meat. But the thing that I'm trying to point out is, your faith. As long as you believe that you've got to work on a job to have a living, as long you believe that you've got to go to the doctor to get healing, as long as you believe that you're a creature bound by the necessities of life and subject to bondage__ The Bible said He made the creature subject to bondage, subject to vanity. As long as your faith is in bondage to these elements of life you will never go in the rapture. Because your faith is held by the gravitational powers of this right here. This is holding you right here, but the day that you can rise above that, and put all of your faith, all of your confidence in God and believe God for your daily needs, believe God for everything. Now, you say, Brother Pike, do you mean I'm not suppose to go to work anymore? No, the Bible says to labor with you hands that you might have to give to others. God wants you to labor with your hands. That's what you should do, if you don't have a calling to do anything else in God. But the thing I'm trying to point out is that you must use the things of this world, and not love the things of this world. People love the things of this world, because the things of this world have them in bondage, and holds their faith in bondage because of their love of the world. Now, you say, Brother Pike, what's the difference. The Bible said if the love of the world is in you the love of the Father is not there. What is the love of the world? The love for houses, the love for land, the love for money, the love for pretty clothes, love for fame, love for popularity, love for prestige, love for leadership. What is the love of God? The love to fast, the love to pray, the love to visit the sick, love to talk with God, love to study the Word, love to give alms unto God, love to send the gospel; that's the love of God. If one is there then the other isn't there. So then, God wants you to have one or the other; to be hot or cold. Not to try to hold on partly with one and partly with another, because He said if you do then you are lukewarm, and He'll spew you out of His mouth. That's a religious person. So then, God is trying to get us to change from the temporal inspiration and go back to the eternal inspiration. How many of you understand what I'm saying here tonight? Change from the temporal, or you will die with the temporal. Go back to the eternal because heaven and earth shall pass away, but only they wherein the Word has been made flesh, and made one with the Word, shall survive when this world is on fire. Everything shall pass away, but this Word, and unless your flesh has been made one with that Word you are going to pass away. That's the only power of eternal life. So then, we see here that the Bible said Jesus went to prepare a place. Where did He go to prepare a place? He is present in your heart. He said, if I go away I'll come again. He said, If I go away I'll come again. Didn't He say that? If I go away I'll come again. Now a lot of people are so natural minded that they're looking for Jesus to come out yonder in the clouds of heaven somewhere, in the natural clouds of heaven. And He will come back in the natural clouds of heaven to the Jews. And He will come back in the natural clouds of heaven as judgment to them that look for Him that way. But the Bible said He will appear the second time without sin unto salvation to them that look for Him also. I want to see God in His appearing unto salvation as he comes to my inner man rather than His coming which will be unto judgment to them that are natural minded that are looking for him that way. Now then, if he comes__ And He said, I will come back. I will come back. All right. See? If He said I will come and receive you, then He kept His Word. He said it's expedient for you that I go away. But if I go, He said, I'll come again. And so then, He came again. In His appearing He came. At Pentecost He shortened the days for the elect's sake, brought the kingdom back, translated them into the kingdom. But He just shortened them for the elect's sake; nobody else. He brought the kingdom only back for the elect's sake. The rest of them have to wait for it. So, He translated them into the kingdom of God. The Bible said God has translated you into His marvelous kingdom just like He did Elijah, just like He did the others, but He hasn't made it manifest in the outer creature, which the Bible calls the adoption, or the redemption of the body. So then, we learn this one thing. That God is appearing the second time without sin unto salvation just like He said He would, and He is receiving those that look for Him. He said, I will come again. I'll come again. And He came again in our hearts and spirits, set up His kingdom, and received the inner man unto God. And He said the flesh profiteth nothing. (Begin side two.)... nothing to the flesh. Jesus said, Don't worry about it. There isn't anything to it. It's the inner man that God is concerned about. So then, He set up His kingdom and He received us. Now then. He said, I will prepare a place that where I am there ye might be also. Our spirit is within the kingdom of God with Him which is with us. How many of you know that the Bible said He prayed in the Garden. When it speaks of it in the Old Testament it said His prayers returned into His Own bosom. That's right. Where else could it go? he had all in heaven and earth. Now then. Notice this right here, Christian friend, that there is a law that we call God law. There is a law that we call man's law. Let's just consider a few minutes and see what Jesus meant when He said I go to prepare a place. Now then. Around us we see the natural things of life, and the Bible said the spiritual is understood by the natural. All of the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear, even the eternal Godhead, so that we are without excuse. There is no mystery about it that can't be understood when God makes it known. At the sounding of the trumpet the mysteries of God are to be finished. And in this hour the mysteries are finished, made know the manifold wisdom of Almighty God. So then, we're made to sit together in heavenly places. Have you ever noticed now, in the natural aspect of the law you find that you can tell what Jesus was doing, what He was preparing. In the natural aspect of the law you know we have laws, we have judges, we have policemen, and we have all kind of law officers. Now then, if you'll listen real careful. Now, notice that everything in the natural points to something spiritual. Let's just see if that's true. Have you ever noticed that a policemen is a type of a preacher, that He is always busy going out pulling in those that are drunk off of the cares of life, bringing them in for temporary confinement. And then there are men that are judges in the gospel, and the law officers have the right to bring you before the judges. And if the judge fines you He is able to sentence you, and the Bible said agree with the adversary, which is the officer, quickly while thou art in the way, lest at anytime he deliver you to the judge and the judge to the jailor, and the jailor cast you into prison and you'll not come out until you've paid the uttermost farthing. Which means fears, frustrations, woes, sorrows, heartaches, troubles. And you won't come out until God__ Until you humble yourself to God, and pray to God, and wept to God, and folded up on your face to God, and then your faith will be elevated again, and you'll come out. Until that time you are absolutely helpless. So then, the officer, he goes out. Many times he runs into trouble. Some times it's a matter of life and death and he has to defend himself. Did you know that preachers kill a lot of people? Now, a good law officer doesn't do around trying to kill folks. He doesn't practice trying to kill folks, does he? A good, courteous law office he tries to help people, and the law out here, the natural law, that is, those laws are to protect us. But young people, especially if you give them a position in the church, the first news you know they crash up. Just like a boy or girl on the highway. You give them a car and they get on some mountain, or some curve, they won't regard the laws. The accept the law as being a bondage rather than being a liberty and a protection. And so then, they do on at break neck speed. They wreck the car, or run into somebody and kill them selves. Like a case I recently heard of. A boy made the statement that he was going to be home in about twenty minutes. He had to go down a snake mountain. So then, coming down the mountain he was going so fast that he either had to run off of the mountain, or he had to turn over to the left and run into a truck that was loaded with stone and it killed him. He lost his life. Just like a lot of young people, because they won't obey the laws of God they soon crash up, and those people are just as dead spiritually, more so, than a man is naturally. If one of those persons ever crashes up and spiritually kills themselves they will never come to God. They are lost eternally. Now, you say, I don't believe that, Brother Pike. It's a proven fact that if they ever crash up, and you can be responsible for some person crashing up. You can have their blood on your hands. Now then, I've said this, and I want to say it again tonight. Did you know that some policemen and detectives that in their training those men are perfect marksmen? Did you know that? They are perfect marksmen, and they can kill you. They can pull a pistol and kill you in just a few minutes. Now, in the spiritual aspect guns are liken to peoples words. They are ministers that are so perfect in this Word that they can take you when you are cast down and elevate you into the heavenlies. Or they are so perfect with this Word that they can kill you instantly. They can place their words right into your heart just like a man shot you in the heart. That's right. Have you ever heard people talking about shooting off your mouth, and being quick on the trigger, and all those things? There's more to those things than you think, friend, when you get into the spiritual world. So then, a man__ God has men that are perfect marksmen with the Word of God. Like the old time frontiersmen years ago, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hicock, and all those men. I've read a lot of their life stories and I know something about them. Some of those men were perfect marksmen. Some of them were great marshalls that were out in the west that settled the frontier. And some of them were indian scouts. Or that is to say, just like the men today which are the spiritual. God has men just like Indian Scouts that are used to fighting with demons as it was. The people of the church wanders off, gets into spiritual captivity, they know just what to do. God has men that are great frontiersmen that are great and courageous men that will venture out into the spiritual world and every time Satan says boo at them they won't fold up and run off, but they'll stay out there. If a of insanity strikes they'll keep wading right on. If a spirit of lust strikes they just keep pushing right on. If a spirit of fear strikes they keep pushing right on. They will not stop, but they're great men that's courageous, that's set in the spiritual frontiers for God. As I said, some of them are great marksmen. Now then, what do you mean, Brother Pike? Jesus said, I go to prepare a place. He's preparing a spiritual world just exactly like this natural world. And unless you are in the mind of Jesus you'll never see it. He's got a shoe maker. He's got a baker. He's got__ There are governors. He's got men that will rule the millennium with a rod of iron. He's got men that's in spiritual college right now. While the world goes on with the natural God has sons of God that's in spiritual college, and when this world passes away they will be spiritually educated to take over in the millennium and rule this world with a rod of iron. And you know, graduation day is getting mighty close. So then, God__ He said, I go to prepare a place and Jesus, living in your heart, living in the kingdom, He is hiring, and everyday building, and making a great spiritual world all around you. And if we just had time to take every step of it and go into it you would see what I'm talking about. It's just as perfect and as beautiful as it can be. Now then, we couldn't go into all the things, but I'm just pointing out something. Now then, check all these and it will run out the same thing. We're God's lawmen. We're God's soldiers. We're God's frontiersmen. We're God's true politicians. We are God's great divers of the ocean for the pearls of great price. We are God's businessmen. We are God's labor and skill, but notice this part right down here. Now then, we come to something that Satan had something to do with. Did you know that right in the counterpart, or right over on the other side of the fence, we'll say, the Bible said Satan is a thief, and Satan is a robber. He comes to rob you of your health. He comes to steal your joy. He comes to rob you of your Sanity, rob you of your happiness. And did you know that Satan has people working for him that's so perfect that if you ever talk to them they'll leave you cast down, they'll leave you wounded, they'll leave hurt and just torn down to where you cannot gain your strength. You say, Brother Pike, how can you tell the difference? The Bible said men don't gather figs of thistles. If I go over to a brother's house and I ask him to feed me something to build me up, and every time I started to try to get a bit of fruit off of his tree he pricks me in my heart and makes me feel worse than I did before I came there I've got the wrong bush. I got hold of a mettle bush. I just move on down to the next house. So then, we see that there are thieves and there are robbers. And some of you people setting in the congregation tonight, no doubt some of you are thieves. No doubt some of you are robbers. I trust that you are not, but no doubt you are, because when the sons of God come then the sons of Satan come also. So then, there are thieves. They've talked with you, and they've turn your mind toward the love of the world. And they've turned your mind toward the things of the world. And they build you up in the natural, and pulled you away from the spiritual. They're murderers, and they're robbers, and they're liars, and they're thieves, and they're whoremongers, and they are adulterers. Some of them commit spiritual adultery, which is the worst of all. I wish we could go into all of it and take it. But remember, when you deny the name of the Lord Jesus you are a spiritual fornicator and an adulterer. When you deny the name of the Lord God that brought you into the world, and you have fellowship with any other power, then you cannot be the Bride of Christ because you are an adulterer. And remember, though my wife is a woman to me, yet you, all of us together as the body, we are a female to God, the Spirit, because the Spirit intercepts the male, which, the female which is the body. So then, we see that some people are actually thieves. They rob you. The best thing to do if you ever meet a spiritual thief, leave him alone. Don't mess with him; get away from him. If he doesn't encourage you in the things of God, if he doesn't encourage you to go on, remember he's a thief and he's the worse kind of a thief. Now, begin natural minded we place a lot of emphasis on the world. We look at these things in the world as being something, but folks, believe me to night when I tell you that God created every thing into existence for one purpose, and that was to educate and school the true children of God. These things of this world absolutely are nothing to God. The Bible said they are beggarly elements. As far as God is concerned He'd love to wipe them all off of the face of the earth right tonight. Now then, he'd love the wicked the same way. The Bible said He's angry with the wicked everyday. One day He's going to get rid of all of them. Wipe them off of the face of the earth and there'll be nothing left except the righteous. So then, you see just as God has lawmen, just as God has great men, and all of these things were created for one purpose. We think they were created for our benefit in the natural, and we do use them, because God knew we'd have need of these things. But God created these things for one purpose, and that was types and shadows to show the real true earth and the real true world that's one day coming in when God sets up the millennium and these other things. So, we've thieves, we've got murderers, we've got robbers, got every thing that can be imaginable; we've got them right there. Now then, the other day we talked about the law, the grace and righteousness. I want to give you a thought tonight. We talked about law, and we talked about grace, and we talked about righteousness, and we pointed out how that Moses' day was law, how that Jesus' day was grace, and how that William Branham's day, being the prophet of this age, was righteousness. We pointed out how that in each age God has never left Himself without witness, but He's been a great vindicator all down through the ages. And when one generation forgets the power of God, in that very age God brings forth a great and a mighty vindicator, which is the Messiah of the age. Now then, notice this one thing. That in talking about these things, brought it out in chart form, and how that God's done in the law, what He done in law, what He done in grace, what He done in righteousness. But I want to come back to righteousness tonight to point something out to you. I spoke of God's laws. The Bible says that judgment begins at the house of God. Now, I want you to notice this real good. Judgment begins at the house of God. When will God judge the world? The Bible says God judges in righteousness. So when the dispensation of righteousness comes in then there'll be no more grace to the sinner. Dispensational grace will be gone, and every person that never received grace unto salvation will go out with this grace. But if they received grace unto salvation then they will have the nature of Jesus and be righteous and able to live in this other dispensation. But this is dispensational grace, and I want to say it to you that if you don't have the nature of Jesus you can stand up here and feel the spirit of God, and while you are feeling the Spirit of God's dropped headlong into the flames of hell. It don't mean a thing to feel the Spirit of God. This is dispensational grace, which means dispensational grace is given to you in a dispensation, and the just and the unjust, or the tare and the wheat alike can feel the rain from heaven because they live on the same water. He sends His rain on the just and the unjust. You can shout, speak in tongues, dance, pay tithes, be religious, all those things, but that doesn't make you a Christian, that doesn't mean you've got the Holy Ghost, but what does mean that you've got the Holy Ghost is when you have the nature of the Word, which is the Spirit of truth, the nature of Jesus Christ, and your own spirit says amen to every jot and tittle. Not in words, but indeed as you walk day after day. That means one thing. That if you have the nature of Jesus Christ that nature is the same yesterday, today, and for ever. And when it was in the body of Jesus it would live right, when it's in your body it will live right, or it will not stay in your body. That means that you have got to live a holy life for by their fruits you shall know them, and a tree produces it's fruits by it's nature and you've got the nature of Jesus Christ. How many of you understand that? Now, I want to give you one quick illustration, or example. Now I was over in Canada preaching the gospel. Went there to preach the gospel, and there was a man that was talking with me. As he was talking he said, Brother Pike, he said, The trouble with you and the preachers of today, he said, you don't know how to preach the gospel and win souls. So then, I said, Well, it might be good if you could tell me. I'm always open and ready to learn. So he said, I'll tell you how you have to win souls, Brother Pike. He said, You have to do whatever they do. I said, Well, how is that, my Brother? He said, Well, if they curse you have to curse with them. He said, If they drink you have to drink with them. He said, If they fight you have to fight with them; that's the only way to win anybody to God. Well, I saw he'd been turned over to a reprobate mind and tried to reason with him. But he said, You don't believe I feel the Spirit of God. So he unbuttoned his sleeve and he rolled up his sleeve, and he took his arm and he held it out like this. And God be my witness, I've got to stand him in the day of judgment. That man's hair stood up on his arm as the Spirit of God went over him. Now you say, What was it, Brother Pike? It was the grace of God in a dispensational grace, and the Spirit was pour out on the tare and the wheat alike. But it's only dispensational grace, which lasts for a time until righteousness comes in. Now, during that time God will bless anybody that raises up faith, because Jesus is the works for that dispensation. But grace unto salvation has appeared unto all who has chosen to live holy, denying ungodliness and all those things. (?) grace, which is eternal grace, it doesn't even start in a human life until that human being has done everything within his power to live right. After you've done everything, you've struggled, and having done all to stand, then the Bible said His grace is sufficient. Salvation grave is sufficient after you've done all you can, but if you__ The way I see Christian people, or supposedly Christian people living today and they just half-hearted, depending on grace they just don't have salvation grace. All you have is a dispensational grace, and you'll die with the sinner, and drop headlong into hell because you don't have the nature of Jesus. There's people come to church, I see them many times, and the Holy Spirit will reveal their spirits to me, and they'll come to church and get up and sing, or get up and testify, and they'll start bawling like a baby, just stand and weep and cry, and everybody says, That's precious sister, that precious sister, that precious brother, look how God is blessing them. They sure must live a good life, but the truth of the matter is she's probably lammed her husband up side of the head with a dish pan, or something, and she's got to church and when the Holy Spirit falls on her then she feels so bad because she's felt God's Spirit and It's so wonderful, and conviction makes her feel so bad she starts bawling about what she's done. But does it change her? She goes back the next day and she hits him again. Now which it's the same thing. Now then, but the thing I want to point out, friend, is, right here in the righteous dispensation, the dispensation of righteousness. Judgment begins at the house of God. Whosoever sins the minister remits is remitted, whosoever sins the minister retains is retained. Jesus said, As my Father sends me so send I you. Whosoever sins you remit shall be remitted, whosoever sin ye retain shall be retained. And so he stands there behind the sacred desk; judgment begins at the house of God. Some men confess their sins and their sins go before them to the judgment to be judged in grace and mercy. Some men will not confess their sins, but they cover their sins. They'll not prosper in God, and their sins follow them to the judgement to be condemned in that day. Now then. But here is the thought I want to get over tonight. How close is the judgment of the living God? It's this close, that the revelation of Jesus Christ is now being made known. What will the revelation of Jesus Christ do? It's judgment in the house of God. What will it do? It will make you to know what place of life you are in. I want you to get this now. God said does everything through His ministers. He always works through His people all down through the ages. He spoke the world into existence by His Word, and by the mouth of His ministers; not them that speak, but the heavenly Father. He is speaking the world out of existence. Remember that. I said the other night He set the world in your heart. If you can't find your way, as a man thinketh in his heart so he is. He just goes around in a circle all of his life, making his belly his god he dies, and he's labor all his life for his belly, because the Bible said his belly craves it of him. So then, he's in bondage to his belly all his life. Now then, but the Bible teaches that the minister, which speaks the Word, it is God speaking, that it has power to speak the World out of your heart, and speak the kingdom of God into your heart. For the same God that spoke this world into existence into your heart is speaking it out of existence out of your heart, and there is going to be a change. An angel will set his foot, one foot on the land, one foot on the sea, lift up his hands and swear by him that liveth for ever and ever that time shall be no more. In that hour you can throw away your time markers. Throw away your calendars, throw away your clocks, everything that marks time, because man will not be a time creature. He will have changed over to the eternal creature, which is the sons of God, and the same eternal day that was before the world ever begun, before God ever set up time markers is coming back in again and this great, or this dispensation of time will just move away and emerge into nothing. How many of you understand that? One will set his foot on the land, one will set his foot on the sea. Now you might say, Brother Pike, what do you mean? I mean there will come forth a man like Jesus that's able to stand in the spiritual world with one foot, and will be able to stand in the rest of the world with another foot, take hold of God, the spiritual word of revelation, and take hold of man with the other and cause them to be connected together. And in that hour declare that time shall be no more. Speaking the world out of existence, and the Bible said there will be a change in the moment in the twinkling of an eye, and setting in your seat you'll be changed. Now, a lot of people say, Well, I'm waiting for it. But listen. The Bible said your are changed from faith to faith. Your changed from glory to glory into the image of the fullness of Christ, and in that hour when God has brought you in, the last ones in, then the complete change will take place. Now you might say, Well, Brother Pike, I don't see how everybody can change, and be changed at one time in moment if we're changed a little bit at a time. It's easy. I just wish we had time to explain it. We've explained it to the saints before, and it very simple in the mind of the Lord Jesus. Now then, what does this do? This spiritual revelation is the judgment message of the age; that's what it is. It unravels every natural temporal thing that is in this world. There is nothing that is left covered because it's the finishing of the mysteries of Jesus Christ. It shows you the place that God prepared. It shows you who you are by the natural allegories of the mind of God. You stand in the judgment and you suddenly stand before God and the revelation declares you to be a thief, or declares you to be a robber, or declares you to be a murderer, or declares you to be one of these great men of God, or one of the laborers of God in His vineyard. This will place you just exactly as judgment begins at the house of God. And remember, your faith orbits around the word of truth. When this puts you in your category your faith will start orbiting around truth, and every time that you try to deny it, it will say true, true. You know you are. True. True. And the same Word that spoke Adam and Eve unto death, and all the rest of the generations, will speak you to an eternal death, and you are cast out of the mind of the living God. That's how close that we are to the end of time. Now then, it is faith orbiting around the truth, which is the light of the living God. It is your mind that is held in captivity by the Word of God here. You know how that the planets orbit around the sun. Some of you are familiar with it. And they cannot escape that great power that holds them in their orbit. So then, judgment begins at the house of God, and this great light, and this great revelation is telling you who you are and what you've been doing, and judging you according to the deeds done in the body. And by your very words you are justified, and by your very words you are condemned to be cast into outer darkness. And He declares that time shall be no more. Now then, notice this that we are at the end of time. I said the other night in the message that the wise men watched the stars. And as the watched the stars they saw the sign of the Son of Man appearing in heaven. And when the Son of Man appeared in heaven it meant the babe, Jesus Christ, had been born into the world, which is the body of the Lord, that as it wrestled out of it's state of travail in the womb of the bride, and the Son's of God here at last come forth. That sign has already appeared in the heavens as I told you the other night, and proved it by spiritual revelation in the Word of God. And here we're coming before the great White Throne of judgment, and God who is a spirit, and who is the Word made spirit in revelation, is beginning to judge the entire world, and cause them to find their place because of the things they've done. Not then, it getting mighty close. It's getting mighty close. Now what we need to do is get a hold of ourselves and find our place in God and straighten our lives up, friend, before it's everlastingly to late to make any change. Now then. There's a lot more I could say. Could go into the (?) of Daniel, but I've taken so much on this other that I don't know whether I ought to go into it or not. But anyway, we might better wait and get on these things tomorrow night. I didn't know that we had so many thing here. But let's just wait on these things until tomorrow night. But let me say this. I don't think I ought to close right this minute, because there are some more things that are connected with this. How do you know, Brother Pike, that the end of the world is here. In many, many ways I know that it's at an end. But this is one great thing. You remember over in the book of Revelation, the Bible said that a great angel fell from heaven having the keys to the bottomless pit. And the Bible said that when he fell from heaven that he took the key, unlocked the pit, and out of the bottomless pit came forth the locust, came forth the smoke that filled the elements, and all of these things. Do you remember that? That he open up the bottomless pit. Now, I don't know how spiritual you are, but if you'll look way back in the days of Abraham Lincoln, he was a type of David of old, or a type of the Son of God. I made the statement not too long ago, I said, Betty, Abraham Lincoln and Kennedy's Administration is one and the same. And immediately after that, (I still have the clipping.) immediately after that there was a piece published in the paper that said the administrations were exactly the same, and they paralleled them, about one hundred years apart. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln, Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. And they just went right on down the line and paralleled them. Now then, let me say this. Abraham Lincoln was a great man. I think all of you agree to that. Abraham Lincoln was a great man, and the reason that he freed the Negro slaves like he did, he could do nothing else. God works all things after the counsel of His Own will, to lay down the types and shadows, that all spiritual things might be understood by the natural and nothing should be out of pattern. Now then, God is so precise that the hairs of your head is numbered. Not one of them will perish without God knowing it. Now, God doesn't do anything at random, or haphazardly, like your carnal mind might think he does. So then, Abraham Lincoln__ There Abraham Lincoln came to the thought that men are equal, and there should be great equality. All men should be equal through life. And so it is God has made all men equal through life, except in the aspect that they type and shadow certain things, and fit certain places tonight, but as far as equality, He has made all men equal. Now then, Abraham Lincoln could do nothing more than God made Abraham Lincoln do to carry out his plan of working out all thing after the counsel of His Own will. So then, Abraham Lincoln, to put this law into effect, what did he do? He had to free the Negroes, as well as everybody else that might have been held down by bondage, which was a type of Jesus Christ. Now, lots of people get confused and they say, Well, Abraham was a lover of Negroes, and they say Jesus Christ__ They say mean things about the Lord Jesus over there. And they say He loved the wicked, too. Now people say He loves the wicked. I've heard them say, Well, He loves the wicked just like you. No sir! I want to say this again. The Bible said God is angry with the wicked everyday. The offering of the wicked is abomination in the sight of God. The prayers of the wicked is abomination in the sight of God. There is no peace to the wicked, but they are like the trouble waters that's forever casting up their mire. And I will pursue the wicked until they perish from off of the face of the earth, the Bible said. But the dispensational grace has to bring the water on the tare to give the temporal inspiration by saving His creature to switch him back to the inspirational grace, eternal inspiration of life that Satan took him away from. So then, God is angry with the wicked, but when Jesus died He had to bring equality to all men. That was a dispensational equality, or a dispensational grace. Now, the dispensational grace, or equality, caused Him to have to put His blessings on the wicked and let them live, because all of the creatures of God are good. Justified by the death of the Lord Jesus they are free from sin as far as the body is concerned. But they'll pay for their sin as far as the soul is concerned, and the Christians, according to God, their soul cannot sin. So then, we cannot accuse God in the day of judgment. It will be our own fault. Whatever we've done, that's what we will be judged by, our words and deeds. Now, when Jesus died on the cross here's what happened. When the Lord Jesus died over on the cross then he had to give equality to all of them, and in doing so He let the gates of hell swing wide open and let the evil spirits come out in the world, which the Negro is a type of in this world. Now, you say, Brother Pike, you've being cruel to the colored. No, I'm not cruel to the colored. Because some of you setting right here are brute beast. You fit the allegory of brute beast just like they fit the allegory of the demon. So, it's just one or two, or something. Somebody said, It's all the same thing, one or two, or half a dozen of the other, or however you say it. I don't know how to say it. Anyway it's the same thing. And some of you are brute beast and some of them, they represent the demon, and some of them are brute beast. But in the Lord Jesus there is neither male nor female, neither Greek nor Jew. There is neither Negro nor white, but they are all one in the body of Jesus, but in this world they are not one. It's like women saying they are equal to the man. In this world you are absolutely not, in the sense that you are to be subject to the man, and the man is to rule over you. How many of you understand that? Now, the man is to rule over you. We're just going to change the tape here. Now then, the man is to rule

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord