The Reality Of God's Word

Jesus said go ye in to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Whereas, you know, it appears that sometimes that maybe that doesn't have the strength that it needs and we think, Well, preach the gospel to many people but not every creature, Brother Pike. Not everybody is going to leave what they're doing, as to whether it be sports, or money, or whether it be offices, or whatever, and hear the gospel. Not everybody is going to hear the gospel. But everyone will hear the gospel. Everybody. Everyone will hear it. Whether it's by satellite, or TV, whether it's by printed page, whether it's by testimony, whatever, God intends to let every living creature hear the gospel. And the end of the world cannot come until every creature has heard the gospel. And the Bible said when the gospel has gone into all the world for a witness then shall the end come. Some would say, I don't think we can know when the end is coming. Well, that's what the Bible says. That tells me pretty plain. When it goes into all the world for a witness then shall the end come. And the Bible teaches that we know about this wonderful coming of the Lord. Another thing that seems to be the error among the people is that, Well, nobody knows when the Lord is coming. or the end of the world. But it's plainly stated the end of the world is when everyone hears the gospel. There would be no reason to let it go any farther. The ones that are going to do right will do right and the ones that is not there's no need to give no more grace because that would just allow for murderers and killers and adulterers and perverts and all kind of things. And as to the coming of the Lord do we know? The Bible said we're not children of darkness but children of light in that that day should come upon all the world as a snare upon all of them that dwell on the earth, so shall it come. Though the Bible said, Be ye also ready for in an hour that ye think not the son of man comes. The last days, what will they say? Where is the promise of his coming? someone said. As they would say in the last day, All things remain the same as when our fathers fell asleep, but this the Bible said, they are willing ignorant of and that is, it is as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. The Bible said, Ye, being children of light, ye shall know when it is nigh, even at the door. And I say so often, when someone puts their hand on the doorknob and they're at the door that's as close as they can come without stepping on the inside. So we do know. The world shall not know. Why is it the world will not know? The world is filled with brilliant people. There are people so brilliant in the world until it is almost staggering if you communicate with some of them. But will they know? The Bible said that all of the knowledge of the world is foolishness to God. That is the greatest type that they obtain during their lifetime. All of their knowledge, science, which means knowledge, falsely so-called. Paul said ever learning and never able to find the knowledge of the truth. With all of their learning and diplomacies of life and measuring themselves by themselves their not wise. And the Bible said, seeking honor one of another, as to diplomacies, they stumble at the wonderful knowledge and glory of God, and they don't receive the honor which is of God. So then, we do know that it is near at hand, and the signs of the times do we know? He said you discern the sign of the weather and you know when it's going to be bad, or when it's going to be good. He said to them, he said, you are hypocrites. He said if you cannot discern the signs of the times you are a hypocrite. So if I ask you tonight, and I started from this side and I went all the way around and I say, How many of you discern the signs of the times? Now if you could not discern the signs of the times what must I say to you? I would say you are a hypocrite, if I would say what He said. And he that God sendeth will speak God's word. Now should I say what the Word says? So then, that gives us a chance to examine ourselves and see if we're in the faith. In the later times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, having their conscience seared with a hot iron. The good and the bad so close it would deceive the very elect if it were possible because the blood is on the seat of mercy. And as long as it is there what can we say? I'll say this and I might lose some of my congregation before I really get started reading here. But what can we say then? I say that we're all in heaven. Oh, no, somebody says. Oh, yes, we are. You just don't understand, that's all. Oh, but I don't believe that. That's all right. Now is a good time to start learning and believing. Somebody says, Well, I believe what I believe and I know what I know. I know, but if you're planning to learn anything else you're going to have to listen to the teacher, or you're just going to be a self propelled person and all you're going to know is what you already know and you're never going to grow and learn anything. Somebody say hallelujah. All right. Let's read this little thing right here. Reading in the tenth chapter of the book of Mark it says in the thirty-third verse, "Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: (34) And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again. (35) And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. (36) And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? That's a good thought. You can sit down right there. What would you that I do for you? What would you that I should do for you? I think that probably is the question that the Lord would ask everybody. And certainly everybody has something that they would like for God to do for them. Now I'd like to say again, I'm glad that you're here. It means a lot to me for you to be here. I appreciate you coming out to be with us and that's what we want to do, is preach to people. The Bible said that it shall come to pass that every knee shall bow, whether it's an atheist, whether it is a millionaire, a billionaire, whether it is a scholar, whether it is somebody in the upper echelon as a dignitary, or whatever, every knee shall bow. Of things in heaven, and things in the earth, and things under the earth; every knee shall acknowledge that He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. So we know that everybody, at one time or another, is going to repent. It may be too late, like Judas, but they're going to repent and now is the day of grace and now is a good time to repent. Call upon the Lord while He is near. You know, if I ask you the question tonight, if I would say, Do you really believe there is a God? Most likely you would say yes, because even noted infidels that have passed on when they were asked at the last minute, Do you believe there is a God? They said, Oh, yes, I believe there is a God. I just don't believe it the way that people teach it. I have a different concept, but they did believe that there is a supreme power. God having fashioned all men's hearts alike that they might seek after God. Even the Indians dancing around the totem pole, or whatever it might be. Everybody is looking for something because their heart is desiring a way out. Why? Because with all of the medical brilliance, all of the military strength, with all the money powers people still have funerals and they still die, and though they pump their muscles, and though they make their physiques nice, as to trim their bodies up and they use it for the devil for lust and their intelligence to dispute what is godly and what is sound, but they still put them in a hole, whether they be presidents, or kings, or whatever. They have one thing in the future to look forward and that is they're going to dig a hole and they're going to put them down in it and throw the dirt in on them, and none of these great brilliant people have ever been able to change that. None of them with their money and their power and their prestige, and their kingship, or whatever. As Jacob said, you go the way of all the earth. You pass the cemetery and you look and you know that is the end of all flesh, whether it's the rich, poor, educated, or what. So then, that puts us all on the same level. So we know that there has got to be a God. There's got to be an answer and Christ is that answer and we're looking for the Lord. We're searching. All men are searching for a way out. All these men that have money. All that a man has got in his wealth, his pride, his prestige, his position in life, the Bible says at death he'll give every bit of it for his life. And the Bible says in the book of Revelation when the sign of the Son of man appears in heaven that they throw their money to the bats, and they run and cry for the caves, the mountains, the rock to fall on them and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne saying, The great day of His wrath has come and who shall be able to abide. So if I ask you tonight, I would say, Now look, folks, do you believe there is a God? Of course, you would probably say yes. Then I would say, If you do believe that there is a God, do you believe then that men actually die and go to Heaven? And you would say, Well, I believe that, Brother Pike. Then the question arises, Do you believe there are dead folks in Heaven? Of course not. Nobody dies and goes to Heaven because there are no dead folks in Heaven. Jesus said, I've come that you might have life and have it more abundant, for I'm the prince of life, and the word abundant means filled up and overflowing. That is the thing that we are looking at. The overflowing. See? We are not going to die. If I were going to die then I would just quit preaching, for what is the need of preaching and what's the need of telling people they need eternal life if they can't have eternal life? And if they're going to die and go to Heaven what's the need of trying to preach to them that they should live to get to Heaven? So then, something is out of balance somewhere. As I said to someone the other day, I would say, In Monroe here if everybody was dead would you stay around them? If the people in Monroe, or the people that live in the other areas of California, or Florida, or wherever they might be. We've got people coming from all those places, and people that are here. See? Now if I said to you, in your home town would you live there if you knew everybody was dead? You'd say, Of course not. But yet you do live there and the Bible said they are all dead and some twice dead and plucked up by the roots. So then, do we seek the living among the dead? No. Why should we seek the living among the dead? He said come out from among them and get out of the graveyard. Come out from among them and be a separate people. Touch not the unclean things and I'll receive you saith the Lord. So when we ponder all these things, as to what the Lord is trying to tell us, most certainly He is trying to get something over to us. He is trying to make us understand. Do all men die? Of course all men die, to the extent that it is appointed unto men once to die and after that the judgment. Then do I have to die? As a man born in to the world, yes. Well, what happened? Does everybody have to die? Oh, no. Why is it that they do not have to die? Because we are already dead by Calvary through the shed blood of Jesus, and the Bible said, them that are born again reckon yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin and unto the world and alive unto God. Delivered for our offenses, as He was in the image of sin, and raised again for our justification as in a new form. So then, we reckon ourselves to be dead by the body of the Lord Jesus unto sin and being buried with Him in baptized in His lovely name for the remission of sins, since remission is in none other name. Then we're resurrected with Him in the newness of life that we might live again. Old things are passed away and behold all things are new and we are a new creature in Christ. And, folks, to get in to that tonight just to talk about that a little bit it would take all night long and when the morning come we'd just be getting started. Someone would say, Brother Pike, you're not suppose to exaggerate. I'm not exaggerating, so help me God. All liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire, and I'm not exaggerating at all. I'm telling you exactly the way it is. So in the world they say tell it like it is. I say this again tonight as I said last night, the Bible said come out from among them; be ye a separate people. Come out of the world. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, surely you must be eccentric; talking about coming out of the world. Paul said as to come away from the fornicators and the liars and the cheats, and all these things of the world. You can't get out of the world in the sense that you walk among these people. He said to be able to do that you'd just have to leave the face of the world; you can't do that. But he said come out from among them and be a separate people, and touch not the unclean things so far as your spiritual indwelling being. There is an outer man; there is a an inner man. There is a spirit world; there is a natural world. And you are as a creature, as a body, subjected to the vanities of this natural life of your human senses and you are relative to these things because you thrive off of these things and you survive by means of these things, and God, the great eternal Spirit, the great Father of spirits has subjected your body, even your outer being that is called the creature, He has subjected it to these vanities, and if we went into the revelation of that it would take all night long. The Bible said great is the mystery of godliness. Great is the mystery. And Paul said I would that you were spiritual. I'd like to speak unto you as unto spirituals and we as the church are suppose to be spiritual. He's our overseer. And he said pray that God will grant unto you the spirit and revelation. One God, one spirit, many operations. That God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation, see? so that you might know this wonderful thing. And John said, as to the revelation of Jesus Christ, he said, the time is at hand and he that is just let him be just still, and he that is unjust let him be unjust still. He said, the liar and the fornicator and the perverts, and all these people, they will have no part in the kingdom of God because that is evil spirits and those demon spirits that are wandering around through the intellectual darkness of your human reasoning by the old tree of knowledge that started with Satan, Lucifer who has infiltrated the flesh; they are still wandering around today. Satan, being the god of this world, he seeks to strengthen his kingdom by putting demon spirits, or fallen angels into human bodies, and making his army grow greater and confiscating the entire earth, the government and everything in it, and turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, or that is lavishly doing what they want to during the time of grace, until the time of grace is up and the blood comes off of the Seat of Atonement and Satan finds himself out in the darkness as the ruler of the darkness, which he really is and all of his subjects will be out there with him. Because as long as the church is here there is life, which means understanding. And there is going to be some forms of government that are good throughout the world. We've preached around the world and there is going to be some governments that are good around the world. There are going to be some good. but at the same time the bad is going to be there because as long as this mercy is there the rain is coming down upon the just and upon the unjust. And the little tare that is out in the field it dances and hollers, and has just as good a time as the wheat goes, because all of it lives by the same water and the same sunlight. But when the church is gone and the light is gone, which means understanding, then the people of the world with all of their educational systems, with all of their diplomacies, they will be completely ignorant. And as I said so many times, in that intellectual darkness though they learned they never came to the knowledge of the truth. And the Bible said they won't even be able to perfect even a bottle of healing medicine to relieve the pain to let you know that all of this, as to the medicine that doeth good, or as a merry heart like a medicine, and all of these blessings that come down are from God and those people out there are not intelligent. It's foolishness to God, but they are reflecting the light of the Sons of God. And these people that are actually gods. Jesus said they're gods, because a god cannot die, and they are gods. They've passed from death unto life and they cannot die. And the world is reflecting this light and as soon as this light goes out they're in intellectual darkness to the extent that death will not even bring relief. Death will flee from them and they will be altogether intellectually ignorant. Paul said, blinded by the ignorance that is within them and they won't be able to understand nothing, as to a government. They'll gnaw their tongues for pain. So then, we know that being under the blood is a great day. Having the mercies of God is a great time. Call upon the Lord while He is near, and while He can hear you, because you should work while it is day for soon the night cometh, as to an intellectual confiscating and no man can work then because Antichrist will do his own thing. And the Mark of the Beast is right on you. I hope you don't mind me just talking when I come in here just to collect your minds and your thoughts. See? The Mark of the Beast is on you. We made the statement that the Mark of the Beast would come through the German mark. That's the way the Mark of the Beast would come. And sure enough, all of a sudden, why did they choose out of all of the monies of the world to a stablized medium of exchange, why did they choose the German mark? And why is it that the nineteen countries that are coming together over there, as to this common market, and many things we could say about it tonight, why did they come together to choose the German mark? Because it says you'll not be able to buy, and you'll not be able to sell unless you have the mark. And common to the commodities of all the world, which will stop coming to America and will be cut short over there on the other side of the ocean to save that charge of shipping overseas. And people will have to purchase from it. And if you'll read over in the book of Revelation you'll see that this great common market is going to come up. And when it comes up all of the commodities are going there, see? And the German mark is going to be the medium of exchange. And from the German mark it will work itself into a computerized number that will be under the powers, even as the Belgium thing that we saw over there, the great computers. Everything is going in to a numerical order. We made the statement years ago that it would move in to a numerical order. And I said, the major thing it would move in to is the social security number. At that time the social security number was just a little card and you get it through work and that was all there was to it. But since then they've moved it, as to the military power they've put that number as a social security number. And all of the numbers that seem to be of a major significance is now the social security number. And it is all moving in to the social thing as a social trend that it might bring it around to the mark, and with the mark bring it around to the number. And the Bible said, consider this number; he that hath understanding let him count this for it is the number of a man, and that number is six hundred, three score and six. And, of course, we're not going to preach tonight as to the Antichrist but I can tell you he's well on his way. And I can tell you that with the laser it won't be long and you'll be carrying the number. Somebody says, Brother Pike, do you mean to tell me that the church is going to go through all of this? That we're going to have to reject that number? No. The church isn't going through that. I'm just telling you that is how close it is. If the number is that close, that already they've chosen the German mark for the medium of exchange, can you imagine how close the rapture of the church, as you refer to it as the rapture, how close the translation of the church is? And the light going out. And the Bible said as to Lot being symbolic of the church, the day that he went out of Sodom and Gomorrah God rained the fire and brimstone. Have you been to Sodom and Gomorrah? I'm sure that some of you have. I know that some of you went into Israel with me, being there about ten different times, and preaching over in those countries, Egypt and around in Israel, whatever. You go by Sodom and Gomorrah. We've done it; by the mountain of Masada (?) and we know that it is just exactly like Lord said, see? So, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever, something is about to happen. Something is on the verge of happening and the thing is that this meeting that we're having here is not just another gathering that we might shout and praise God, even though we should shout and praise God. We should give God all of the praises, the honor and the glory, and subject our body, casting down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, bringing in to captivity every thought to the obedience of Jesus Christ. See? We should do that and we should be thankful to God that God has allowed us to be in this little assembly tonight for around the world hundreds and thousands of people will gather in churches and it will mean absolutely nothing. Even though you would question that, you know, and you would think that I was vainly puffed up by fleshly minds, no need for me to try to struggle and strive here in trying to express what I mean by that. You're going to have your opinion anyway. It's like the old Chinese proverb; a person convinced against their will, they're of the same op pinion still. It doesn't matter what you preach. It doesn't matter what you say, when they go out they're going to have it their way and anything that you brought out that's good, that they liked they'll incorporate it within their lifestyle to do what they want to with it and turn the grace of God in to lasciviousness. But at the same time they are then guilty before God because they have heard the gospel, see? And you are not charged with the problem anymore. They're guilty. You've done your work. And when they do this it means that they are beast, and they are blind. The Bible said this great wonderful light that is called understanding, that this light shines in darkness but the darkness cannot comprehend it because you have to comprehend the height, the depth, the width and length of great wonderful revelation. If I were a teacher and I was up here teaching you some kind of a something, as to a numerical order, and I was teaching you, as to the formulated way of life that you might understand the formula to come to the hidden answer, as to the mystery, then I would go through all of these ritualistics and all of these things that teachers go through with. Whereas Paul said, I am a preacher and a teacher. But, see? All of that, as a symbol, has nothing to do with real life. It helps you in this life, as to a world of vanity, but the light -- The Bible said gross darkness shall cover the people, as to this intellectual concept of brilliance as it was down in Babylon when the king walked around and said, Look at what at I've got. Look at what I've done, and the vision that Daniel had and the hand writing came on the walk as Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin; you are weighed in the balance and found wanting. And as it was with Nebuchadnezzar there when he walked around, saw all of these things even as his grandson done, and all of a sudden the hand of God began to move and God turned him into a beast and put him out in the field, let his nails grow out like the people of today. I said he let his nails grow out like the people of today. I've seen women with them sticking out there; I couldn't hardly believe my eyes. Perverted in mind, no understanding. He lost his understanding and his hair grew down to here, like the people of today. Running around with their hair down here, men. The Bible said it's a shame for a man to have long hair, but the hair slap down to here, hair hanging down to here. What was it like? The Bible said his hair grew out like feathers, and his nails grew out like claws. Why was it? He lost his mind. What has happened to the people today? They've lost their minds. Let's give the Lord a hand. They've gone spiritually crazy. They don't have any understanding. Why is that? Because God is calling the church out, and God is beginning to get the people that do have good understanding out and they're going in to that darkness just like I said They won't have enough understanding to even have a physician to bring them any relief from gnawing their tongue, like an epileptic. Saw not too long ago where, somewhere, I can't remember, Missouri I believe it was, there a man fell out right in front of me, began to gnaw his tongue. Blood and whatever. Just a mess. His head hit the concrete, like that, you know, as to an attack. The devil seized upon him. Folks, what are we talking about tonight? Reality. Not fantacism. Think now. What did I say about this world, as to what God said? He that God sendeth will speak God's word. What did I say about it? I said, All that is of the world. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, you need to preach against this and you need to preach against that, but let's don't take everything in, Brother Pike. But, nevertheless, the Bible said all of the world. All of the world. All of the world. America and Germany and all of the world. And the Bible said everything that's in the world, including you and including me, and including everything else. And all that is in the world, as to the first birth, and what is that? The Bible said it is the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. It is the image, as to the bastard child, and God said, I'll hate it in the morning when the Daystar starts dawning. All of the world. And, you know, when we come down to these things people go out a lot of times like black birds. But in all of these things in the world of God -- Oh, somebody says, Brother Pike, you won't have a congregation if you preach against those things. Like a man told me one time out in Colorado, there under the tent. He said, Brother Pike, if I preach what you say I won't have any congregation. Half of my congregation will leave. I said, Well, isn't that what it's all about? The Bible said separate the sheep from the goats. Are you trying to take the goats in, too. Jesus said, I'm not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Somebody said, Well, you sound rude. I know. Paul said we're rude in speech but not in knowledge. So then, what does the preacher do? Somebody said, You don't have to shout. The Bible says lift up your voice like a trumpet. You ever heard a trumpet sound? You ever been in service? early in the morning? Lift up your voice like a trumpet and show My people. Somebody says, God's people? the religious people of the world? Said, show them of their sins. They come to church and they come before me and they act like a people that have never done any wrong, but they did do wrong, and said, show them of their sins. I said, But, Lord, that's Your people. My people? He said, all of my tables are filled with vomit. He said, I would that you were hot or cold, because you are lukewarm warm I'll spew you out of my mouth. The Laodicean church age. All of my tables are filled with vomit. All of the world is corruption. Every man has turned to his own way. There is none good, no not one. Every man has turned to his own quarter for his own gain, and God has laid upon Jesus Christ, even the Lord Jesus Christ, the iniquity for all of us, and He was bruised for our transgressions and the chastisement of our peace was placed upon His back by whose stripes we are healed. The Bible said be holy in body and spirit. Folks, tell me something. Can you go down to the beach and strip your clothing off and run up and down the beach half naked and be holy in body? Don't we have more sense than that? and more understanding than that? Can you go out to ball games and scream like a wild Indian after somebody that is half naked with their dress, or doing the things they are doing and breaking each other's necks and wallowing around like a bunch of hogs in the mud? Scream and hollow and set out there and be holy in body? and you tell me that that is God? It's like a vision that I had. I've spoken of this vision where I was in this vision and I heard the hollowing and I heard screaming and I looked over here way off in the distance and here was a great, great place where it looked like they were having a meeting. I mean it looked like they were having a hallelujah time. I looked over there and I thought, My God! Let me get in the middle of that, because I could hear them talking about the Lord. When I got over there in the middle of it I found out it was a ball game. And I was literally shocked. I thought, Let me get out of this place. They were over there praying for the ball team. My God! What an abomination! What a foolishness! What an ignorance! Somebody take the blood of Jesus and with something like that, apply it to that kind of foolishness. No wonder Jesus said they are pigs, and they are dogs, and my tables are full of vomit. And they are wallowing in the mire. The old sow, you can wash her up and make her look as religious as you want to but when you turn her loose she goes back to that old ugly mind of hers and she wallows in the mire. And the dog, you can take him and clean him up but he goes back and he laps his vomit. Somebody say hallelujah. This is camp meeting. This is camp meeting. Now, I didn't preach like this last night, did I? I went into revelation and went in to deep mysteries and all these things. I talked real kind and real gentle like, and now here you are hollowing and screaming. Well, a preacher, he's like that, full of surprises. Especially some of them in the day were living in. But, nevertheless, what has the church done. The church instead of coming against this has reached out and embraced this thing, and said, This is ours; we're going to have our own ball team. And we're going to have our own society, and we're going to incorporate these in to our church so that we can get people to come to church. Why do you do that? Since you are a devil why don't you go our and join the bunch of devils instead of getting them into the house of God to defile the house of God? That's why Jesus turned over the money tables. That's why He popped the whip. He said, My Father's House should be called of all nations a house of prayer and you've made it a den of thieves. Because the Bible said Satan is a thief and a robber. Did you not read in the book of Revelation? It says, and when the woman was heavy with child and fixing to bring forth, there the Bible speaks of it. When she was heavy with child John saw her in Heaven. I said tonight there is a heavenly thing that you don't understand unless you are in God. And there she was in Heaven fixing to bring forth her child, and the Bible said just as quick as she brought forth her child, what did it say? Somebody said, Let's put him on the ball team. Oh, no, somebody says. Oh, yes. Talking about reality. The Bible said the old Red Dragon, the blood life, that life of reproduction from this passion that we have, and this gullible desire of human senses, as to a stimulation that is unreasonable, over charged by demon spirits. See? Wasn't that what it said? It said, And Satan was laying right there, the old Red Dragon ready to devour the child as soon as it was born. And in the churches today, that old intellectual scholar is laying right there with his mind so much on the world and the mire, don't know nothing about God, that God is a spirit. He don't know nothing about nothing and he's laying there and he's wanting to make him be somebody in the community, as to be an individual that is a celebrity so he can bring some kind of prestige to the church, or be some ball player, or something in the world. Whatever it is he's waiting to devour him with his intellectual devouring. John said, generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath of God to come. And he laid the axe to the root of the tree and he cut that whole generation, as to that family tree, all the way down to the garden. And then Jesus stood up, as another family tree and as the tree of life and the Bible said the beginning of the creation of God, as the restoring of Son ship, as it was with Adam before he fell from his wonderful illumination that made him a son of God. All right. So we know where we're going. We know where we've been. We know where we're at. See? Is ball games of God? Is sports? When I say ball games that's not really the proper term. See? Is sports of God? No. Well, what is it of? It's of the devil. Oh, somebody -- You know they almost think today that you've blasphemed when you talk like that. They're so much in sports, and sports is so much in them. And they're so interwoven until they think that is almost blasphemy. Folks, sports is of the devil. It's the mind of the devil. There is nothing more filthy, more low down than sports. Even over here in Athens with what they call the Bulldogs, or whatever it is. They have the big drunken parties. They vomit. It's such a mess until it's unreal. And they intermingle themselves, male with female, and the Bible said dishonor their bodies because they have not a love for the truth. God has given them up to a reprobate mind, sent them strong delusions, caused them to believe a lie; turned them over to the devil for the destruction of the flesh because they won't believe the Word of God. They won't believe the truth. They don't love the truth and they don't like to retain truth in their understanding. What is this that you would have me do for you? Jesus said. The question arises tonight, what would you that Jesus would do for you? Do you have something that you would like for Him to do for you? There is something He can do for you. Jesus said, Follow me and I will make you -- He will make you what you ought to be. Just follow me, Peter, and I will make you. But, folks, let me tell you something. It's high time that you awake. And it's high time that you begin to reason soberly. Your government is gone. Your morals are gone. Your decency is gone. People have actually accepted this way of life as a life style. They've accepted this, to just say, Well, what can we do? You know, isn't it that way? Folks, you can't do that. You know, you could get in prison and you can say, Well, I can't get out, the bars has just got me. I just have to accept it. And that's true. That's true and that's what you've done. You've gotten yourself in to prison, and the Bible said you'll not come out until you've paid the uttermost farthering. But I'm telling you, today is the day of deliverance. Today is the day of release. And we're not under the law and we're not under the curse. We're not under sickness. We're not under poverty. We're not under the powers of this world when we believe God. We can come out of it and we can be free from it, and can be children of God. Not only children of God, but you've passed from death unto life and you can leave that thing out there and come into the wonderful presence of God, as to come out from among them; be ye a separate people, touch not the unclean thing and I'll receive you, saith the Lord. So this is the great opportunity of deliverance. This is the great time of release. This is the great time for your innermost being, as a spiritual being, to pull loose from the things of this world, as to the perversion of mind, as to the casting down of imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and to bring into captivity to the obedience of Christ every thought. Now is your opportunity. And do you know what? You actually get to believing that that's all right out there and you make fellowship with the devils, and when you hear the truth you can't understand nothing and you find yourself, as Paul was, a great intellectual religious scholar and killing the people of God, and persecuting the people of God, and thought he was doing something right. And it wasn't until he was on the way to Damascus that God struck him down. And when the scales fell from his eyes by the great light that showed in that he was blinded by that and he heard a voice saying, Saul, why persecutest me? And he said, Who art Thou, Lord. He said, I am Jesus of Nazareth. You are persecuting me. And Paul thought that he was doing a religious thing. The Bible said in the later times they'll kill you and feel that they do God a service. We've just about got that way now. If you tell anything from the Bible then they say you are a cult. You are a cult. Can you imagine a dog standing up on his hind feet looking at a man and saying, You are a monkey. You are a monkey. That's just how stupid that is. Can you imagine anybody, from a little old scholar to a baldheaded professor, that don't know his right hand from his left, standing up and calling God's people a cult because they speak of the Word of God when this is the only truth there is; the only history that has ever been proved. It's no wonder God said we would rise and take the Kingdom after Satan has worn us out. And somebody says, I know that that is a cult. You say, How do you know that? Because it is a documented fact. How stupid. Somebody say hallelujah! I said, How stupid. And the creature, the thing that is made, stand up to God and say, Why hast Thou made me thus? Doesn't the potter have power over the clay to do what he wants to? Well, maybe I'm getting a little strong. Anyway, you know, it just seem so unreasonable to me. The Bible said to separate yourself from unreasonable people. That's unreasonable, folks, for people to think like that and people that are suppose to be intelligent that have studied all of their life. Don't you love Jesus? You know, I ain't going to preach to you as long as I did last night. I went quite a long time last night and I could just go on. I tell you, I love to talk about God. My! I could just go on and go on and go on, but, nevertheless I'm saying these few little things by way of remembrance. Jesus said, I know that you know these things but as long as I, this angelic spiritual being dwells in this tabernacle of clay I feel that I should stir up your pure mind in the Lord and bring these back by way of remembrance. You are good people. You've come to listen to the gospel. No man is bad just by nature, as to his creative presence that comes from God. All things emanate from God. But, folks, we're going to have to come to a realization that somewhere, after God made Adam as the son of God, and made him upright that he lost his balance somewhere. And the Bible said he was under sin, under death and all men because of that, being born of him, are under the penalty of sin unto death. But in Christ Jesus that one man's sin caused all to be under the penalty of death. And if by the sins of one man all people are under the sentence of death, then by one man's obedience unto to life Christ all men are under righteousness, and through that we believe unto righteousness by believing in what he did for us. Paul said, Oh wretched man that I am who will deliver me from the body of this death, this old perverted creature that we pet and pamper so much, making provisions for which the Bible said make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust, or the desire thereof. See? What the law could not do, even though it was spiritual and good, but being weak, as through the flesh, that is, our weakness to perform it, it could not deliver us. But when Jesus came, the Bible said, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, condemned sin in the flesh, nailed it to Calvary, took it out of the way and said, I'm no respecter of persons, let whosoever will come. You're mine. If you'll believe on the Son of God, if you'll call on the name of Jesus, it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And without respect of person I sent Him there for you. I did not send Him to condemn the world because the world was condemned already because of the sins of Adam but I sent Him to bring you salvation but I did send Him to condemn sin in the flesh and I condemned it in the flesh at Calvary and I nailed it to the cross so it's all gone and if you'll believe on me I am the way. I am the truth. I am the light and no man can go to the Father but by me. Remission of sin in none other name. Beginning at Jerusalem and then to the uttermost parts of the earth remission shall be taught in His name. And He said to the minister, You are the minister of God. You bear not the sword in vain. Cursed is the man that holdeth back his sword from blood. If you spare any of them they'll be pricks in your side. And you're set there to execute vengeance upon them that do evil, and you're set there as God to bless them that do good. You can bless or curse. As it was said even of Baalim, whom you bless, or whomever you curse. So then we being the ministers of God, He said, As God has sent me, Jesus said, so send I you, as to the ministers. Whosoever sins you remit shall be remitted. Whosoever you retain shall be retained. And what ever you bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and what ever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. And so then, here we are with the name Jesus, preaching the name Jesus for the remission of sin, and teaching that you need to repent of your sins, be baptized, or buried in a watery grave in that lovely name and that you should come forth as a new creature to serve God, to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord to the full measure of the full measure of the perfect man Christ Jesus, going on to the full reward. Somebody say hallelujah! All right. Let's stand together. Everybody, let's stand together. I appreciate you being here tonight. It's wonderful to talk with you and tell you about Jesus. We've got some fine people here and some of them that I do not know, and I try to acknowledge people as much as I can. If we come to the church over here, you know, wherever you come from if they'll send me a little note, or if they'll tell me something, or I can find out what's going on then I try to acknowledge you because I know that you come a long way and that you are interested or you would not have stopped by. I'm glad to have Brother Chris from the Philippines, who was with us in our great Philippines Crusade when the multiplied hundreds of people piled in to the altar there and he is very precious to me. And also a work he keeps going in the Philippines as to a work, or works in the name of the Lord Jesus. He's a very outstanding man in the areas of the Philippines. He is a man of renown, been up before thousands and multiplied thousands of people on TV and in crusades and whatever and he's come all the way from the Philippines to be with us. And I appreciate that. That is so wonderful. Great men of renown. And we're not speaking evil of dignitaries tonight because real statesmen, real dignitaries, real people that stand for the right thing has given us a great democracy and a great world. But, Folks, let me tell you, the generation that is coming on today there is some that are bad that they are tearing down every decency. They're stealing every moral. They're living like dogs and animals and they're not making any effort at all to leave any footprints in the sands of time, as to greatness that people may see them as a light and lean upon them as a great pillow. So the government, the Bible said, shall be upon the shoulders of the sons of God and the hour is now near, as to the manifestations of the sons of God, for as I said, Satan wearing out the saints they'll rise and take the Kingdom ad they'll possess it forever and ever. Let's sing this little chorus together. Now one thing I remember, I think Pete is getting married tomorrow. Is that right, Pete? I don't know where it's at. Somebody says it's over here and somebody says it's over yonder, and I don't know where it's at so I don't know what to say. Oh, here. Okay, I believe that's Pete's mother. Now we're certainly glad to have here, and I guess maybe this is some relatives. Is that right? Well, praise God. Let's give those folks a hand, can we? It's been a long time since we preached in Ohio. Brother Taylor here, we met him there. He was in college there in Ohio, just fixing to get his degree there when we met him over in Ohio, and his wife, a valedictorian in her class there. Such an outstanding nurse there. When the doctors knew she was around, it was said, they didn't even bother to come sometimes. They said Lindy can handle it. But, anyway, we're certainly glad to have these people. It's a real privilege to have them come here. I know some of them it from Texas. All of them are from Texas? That's great. I know we have Jerry here from Mississippi. We have our Brother Baldwin and Sister Baldwin. We had a chance to talk with them just a little bit today. And there are so many that are here. Brother Marion was down from Tennessee and Brother Randall and his family down from Mississippi. and just so many of them here from different places. I know we've got some that are coming up from Florida. I don't know whether they're here tonight or not. We have the Green's that come down from up near the Virginia line, up in I think -- I always get it mixed up. I think it's the Carolinas, as to the Big Gap, or something? But, anyway, we have them here. And we have the Greens that have supported our ministry for a long time, coming to the camp meeting here. Whereas they've been to numbers of our camp meetings and they've been to numbers of our meetings. And we have some others that are coming in. If they're not here, from Florida they will be in from Florida. Betty just talked to some of them on the telephone and they're wanting to come. We have some of our Brothers and Sisters that are suppose to come in from Humbolt, Tennessee that haven't come in yet. And a quite a number of people that will be coming in from different places all around the nation, and some in the different parts of the world. So we want to worship the Lord. This is camp meeting time. And as I say, folks, this is not just another camp meeting. You really need to listen during this camp meeting and take in everything you can, because after this camp meeting there's going to be some things that happen that are going to be real phenomenal and it's going to seem real strange and it's going to effect the entirety of humanity. So you need to think this over very seriously because this meeting has great, great significance. I would like to speak unto you as unto spirituals tonight. Rather than preach to you about coming out of the world, I'd would that you had already come out of the world. And I'd love to talk to you along the lines of the indoctrination of the revelation of Jesus Christ that Paul received. Such a thing that took him into the third Heaven, and such a thing that John received as the revelation that took him in also in to heaven. Such a thing, as to the coming of the Lord, it is said as to the revelation, the coming of the Lord is at hand. And with this it takes the church up in to heaven, and of course, it is right here on us now. So it would be good -- Last night I felt the yoke break. People were praising God and I felt the yoke break and they were having a good time. The Francises were here last night. They were shouting and praising God and it was real genuine. There was no make believe about it. And people that love the Lord, sometimes the Spirit of God moves on them and they just shout and praise God. And sometimes people do like Jesus, where Jesus He just sighed in His spirit, and He didn't shout. But on the other hand, when David saw the ark of the covenant coming in he just danced and hollered and praised God. So it just depends on how the Spirit effects you. It hit old Brother Ezekiel and he took off like a plane and went through the air and went down to the valley of dry bones. So it depends on whatever the Spirit wants to do. Well, that's what you'll be doing if you walk in the Spirit. Do you love the Lord? All of you, and I know there are a number of you here because I've heard different ones speak of people that have come in. All of you that are here I want you to know that I love and appreciate you. Welcome to Little Bethlehem the home of the soul. We're actively engaged in world evangelism and trying to win souls, and do something for out Heavenly Father, to be about our Father's business that we might bring in this wonderful government that I saw in a vision just a few days ago that come in. That come in. So let's remember that and let's praise the Lord tonight. Can we do that? Can we sing a chorus together, Brother Taylor? (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) Can you sing that with me now? (Singing) Sing this with me now. (Singing) Now the altars are open. While we're singing the altars are open if you'd like to step out. (Singing) Can you sing that with me? (Singing) Sing that with me now. (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) Sing that it with me. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Hallelujah! (Singing) Did you know, if we got the old time religion there wouldn't be no racial strife. There wouldn't be no wars. There wouldn't be no problems. Wouldn't be no sickness. (Singing) Let's give Him a wave offering. (Singing) Serving God is joy, peace. (Singing) While we're singing tonight, praising the Lord, while they're playing on the organ Brother Taylor and them will just keep on singing and playing. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Folks, that's the kind we need. While they're singing. During the camp meeting we wanted to pray for the sick. We didn't pray for the sick last night. I felt the anointing last night in a great mighty way. I know that God was doing things last night because I can feel the yoke break. (Singing) The first night of the camp meeting I told Betty, I said, I felt the yoke break the first night. While they're singing and playing if you want to be prayed for and don't mind stepping up here across the ramp, we're going to pray for you. I know that the whole world, practically the whole world, is sick. Hospitals, problems, demon possession, demon oppression; it's a horrible, horrible situation. So tonight we're going to pray for the sick and we're going to try from night to night to pray for the sick and we want you to believe the Lord while we're praying. I want you to pray with me. I want my minister friends to come around to the back, around here, and come up on the platform with me. If you are a minister of God and you love the Lord then you need to step out and let people know you're a minister. You need to stand for something. Stand with somebody, and if you don't stand for the truth you're going to stand for something else, folks. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) One more time. Let's give Him a wave offering. (Singing) The Bible said, I would that men everywhere lift up holy hands without wrath and without doubting. When you lift up those hands it reminds God of the crucifixion. You're the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular. (Singing) Somebody say hallelujah! Let's give Him a hand, can we? How many believe the Lord is here tonight? The Bible said where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. Do you feel liberty tonight? How many of you feel liberty tonight? Hallelujah! Chris come on up here. Hallelujah! This is Brother Chris, the one I was talking about from over in the Philippines. I don't think you've been up here on the platform since you come, have you Chris? Have you already been up here since you come in? on the platform? First time. How many of you appreciate Chris? Come a long, long way. Come from the great Philippines. A lot of wonderful people over in the Philippines. I remember when we were praying for the sick over there, there were so many people come across the ramp, the ramp broke. I said, Oh, my God! You've got to do something. That thing fell about that far. I don't know if the angel of the Lord caught it, or who caught it, but it stopped. But they were pouring across there. So then, the Lord was moving and the Lord was blessing. And so tonight we're here to worship the Lord. Do you love Jesus? Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) Sing that with me now. (Singing) Think about that now. As the song writer said it must have been cold standing over in the shadows. Letting you get all the glory for every thing that you accomplish in life, to let you get the glory and stand off in the shadows waiting for you to finish all that you were doing, as to your ambition and things of life that He might step out at the very time that the sunlight of your life was going down, and when the shadows of death creep over you for Him to step out and say, Son, Daughter, how do things look? And hear you say, Lord, it don't look so good. When I was young and full of zip I done all of these things. I thought I just had to have the life and have things. But then the sunset of your life comes and you look around and think, Who shall I leave them to? As Solomon says maybe a fool, and you realize that all of it belonged to Him. Let's realize those things like it is and tell it like it is, that everything is His. And as to us we've done nothing at all. All that we ever was lost in the fall and when we think of this like it is then we know that all of it is His. So then, tonight realizing that when you go to depart from this world that the only treasure you have is Jesus. And the only thing that you have to take with you is what you have done for Christ. So tonight let's look at it like it is and remember that all of these things are His. Let's sing this together. (Singing) Standing there in the shadows. (Singing) Think about it now. (Singing) Sing that with me now. (Singing) I want the Brethren to come up here and pray with me. Come on up here a little farther, Tommy. Right here. Come on up a little farther. (Singing) Lift your hands up and sing it. (Singing) Can you sing that with us as we pray? Come on around, Brethren. Pick out somebody here and lay your hands on them and let's pray together. Can you come on up, Brother Hermon, the others? Brother Chris, can you come on up, Brother? We're going to pray in faith tonight, believing God. And we're going to ask God tonight to heal sick bodies. Jesus said if you ask it in my name I will do it. I'm the Lord God that healeth thee. I'm the God that forgiveth all of your iniquities. I heal all of your diseases. Tonight God cares. The Lord He cares. He took your place at Calvary. Your not under the curse anymore. You are out from under the curse, which means that you have right to divine deliverance tonight. Let's praise the Lord tonight. (Singing) Left up your hands and praise the Lord. (Singing) As we sing it once again, just pass on through. (Singing) Let Him touch you tonight. Let Him touch you. We used to sing under the tent, I remember Brother Ben Gahely, a person that used to sing with us and he sang that song, Reach Out And Touch The Lord. And tonight the Lord will touch you. Just step right on up. Step right up, Sister Marie. Step right up, the others right here. Different ones step right around there and lay your hands on these people while John is praying for somebody, Brother Koon and others, pray for these people. Come up there, Philip and lay your hands on these people. Brother Dale, ya'll come up here and pray for these people. Lay your hands on them over here people as they come up. Brother John, come around, son, and pray for them. Let's lift our hands up and let's love the Lord tonight. This is camp meeting and we're here to worship God. And faith in Christ will make you whole tonight and bring you joy in abundance. Jesus said, that you might have life and that filled up and overflowing tonight. So let's love the Lord. You ladies out here, point your hands over this way and you heart towards God and use your faith tonight if you believe God wants to use you stand there and believe that God will heal these people and receive a blessing on your own life tonight as they pass on through just pray for them tonight. (Singing) Are you believing with me? (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) Let's sing it. (Singing) Can you raise it just a little? (Singing) Let's sing that together. (Singing) Do you have any faith in God tonight? Do you have any faith in the Word tonight? I'm the Lord God that healeth thee. God sent His Word and healed them. And the Bible said, by the Word of God He cast out the unclean spirits. And He sent His Word as to salvation, and He said, Let there be, and there was. And tonight faith in God makes you whole just by believing in the Lord. If you want to be prayed for tonight now is the time to step up here and let them pray for you. (Singing) Sing it with me now. Let's worship the Lord. (Singing) How beautiful. One more time. (Singing) Just one more time. (Singing) Can you sing that with me? How many of you appreciate Brother Herman? Known him for a long time He's a straight man all the way. He loves the Lord. He just wants us to pray for him that God will give him a revelation of the Word. Isn't that wonderful? Somebody say hallelujah! Hallelujah! This is camp meeting time. We're suppose to praise the Lord. Love the Lord. Come here so people can get deliverance. Hallelujah! Let's sing another one. All right let's praise the Lord a little bit in song tonight and then after that we're going to let you go, but before we do I want you to love the Lord a little bit and let's praise Him in song tonight. Can you sing this little chorus? (Singing) I wonder why Brother Green isn't up here? (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) Sing that one more time now. (Singing) Do you love the Lord? (Sister Eloise prophesies) Let's sing this chorus. (Singing) Can you lift your hands up to heaven and praise the Lord tonight? (Singing) The Bible said in the book of Revelation 10 and 7 that the mighty angel set one foot on the land and set one foot on the sea and lifted his hands toward heaven and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever that time should be no more. That time should be no more. I said the other night, where did time come from and where did time go to? Why was it he said time shall be no more? Something we know, we're living in the very essence of time and we know that we are now at the end of the way. And this thing that is called time is beginning to dissipate. It is beginning to go away. And if it's beginning to go away then people that are time creatures will go away with it. But you that are not time creatures, you came from eternity. Jesus said, I came from Heaven, I go back to Heaven. And the Bible said we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and if He came from Heaven and we're bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh we're not of this world even as Jesus was not of this world. He said you're not of this world; you came from Heaven and our life is hide with Christ in God. And we are they that God has translated into the marvelous Kingdom of God. The law and the prophets until John; since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached and men are pressing their way into it and they preach the Kingdom of God in Jesus name for an entrance in to that wonderful Kingdom. So then, knowing that time is no more we should be prepared. We should be ready because if time is no more then that means that we are right there with our Savior. Right there with our Savior. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst. I make you to sit together in these Heavenly places. I have chosen you out of the world, and you are not in the flesh. I hid you in Christ with God. (?) until the restitution, the restoring of all things. What a beautiful moment this camp meeting is. This camp meeting has a spiritual significance throughout the entire world. And so then, we're here tonight to worship the Lord. Once again we'll sing it together. (Singing) Sing it again now. (Singing) Your are the generation upon whom the ends of the world have come, Peter said, and now your generation is here at Calvary and time has been taken away in Christ Jesus for the Bible says in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son made of a woman, made under the law. (?) redeem them and today we're not time creatures. There's a time to be born; there's a time to die. In this world you've already been born again You're elect of God and you can never die. (Singing) Father of Heaven, touch this little one tonight. May the compassion of God be upon the little one tonight. You said, Suffer the little ones to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. So tonight touch this little body. Increase his faith and bless him, Father. The Lord rebuke thee from this congregation tonight as the hand of God goes out over this congregation tonight the Lord rebuke thee, even the Lord Jesus. Take you hands off of this congregation, Satan, for the body belongs to the Lord and you are a trespasser and you have no right to it tonight. It's the Lord. It's been redeemed at Calvary. It's the purchased possession and tonight you take your hand off of these people, of the fear, the despondency, all of these things that terrorize, and terrify these people. You move away from them tonight and you leave this camp meeting that these people may be free and worship God in Spirit tonight as to the Heavenly Father, the great Father of Spirits. (Singing) Lift your hands up and close you eyes now. Father, I want You to heal these people. I want Your Spirit to fill these people tonight, and I want You to bring a little faith into America and into the hearts of the people. And I want You to stir the people, Father, in America to where they can come back to the foundations of the fathers and ask for the old landmarks to walk therein to find peace for their souls. (Singing) Father, heal these bodies tonight. Anoint these ministers tonight. May the great wonderful Christ of God be in their hearts tonight and may the yoke be broken and may the anointing to preach the gospel and tell the wonderful love story of our Savior be here tonight. Can you love Him tonight? Can you praise Him tonight? Can you believe Him tonight? Can you believe you're out from under the curse? Can you believe that sin is gone? Can you believe that God has given you healing, salvation, prosperity, blessings and eternal life? Do you believe that tonight? Folks, if you don't believe that you need to start believing right now. You need to lift your hands to God and thank God for the wonderful things that He has done. Stop wondering about what God's going to do. Jesus said, And what would you have me to do for you? What would you have me to do for you? Folks, I want Him to give me the blessings of God. I want Him to fill me up with His glory. I want to have a heart full of charity and I want to do His will at all times. I pray to God that I can be made to be the manifested will of God in the human body. I want to be like Jesus. Don't you want to be like Jesus? Let's lift our hands up and love Him tonight. Let's praise Him tonight cause this is camp meeting. Somebody say hallelujah! Somebody say praise the Lord! Lift up your voices tonight and praise God. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory to God, hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Praise ye the Lord! Hallelujah! While you re singing and loving the Lord tonight. Hallelujah! 

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord