The Form Of A Servant

Everything He's ever done whether it was in our day, or someone else's day, it's always been wonderful. But in our day it's so wonderful, hallelujah! It's so wonderful. It's joy unspeakable and full of glory. All right. Are you happy to be here this morning? I'm so glad that we've got our own place to where we can worship the Lord and don't have to compromise with the things of the world. Now, I'm always thrilled to come to the church of the living God and come to a place to where we don't have any strings attached, or we're not in a confine, as to be afraid to declare the full counsel of God to a people that really love the Lord and love the full counsel of God, and people that are really genuinely trying to live right. In spite of all our problems, our stumblings and our staggerings, we still have people that dearly love the Lord Jesus, and they're trying to do whatever they understand to do. We have Cecil with us this morning someone that I prayed for yesterday. He came up with Brother Eugene Nix. As a matter of fact, he's Gene's brother and he's here. I believe this is the first time. Can you give him a hand? This is to let him know that he's welcome to Little Bethlehem and that we're glad to have him. He seems like a very nice person. We're glad to have you. You are our spiritual children in the Lord and you come with regularity to listen to the wonderful voice of God as it comes forth, and I come to listen to it, as well as you. The Bible said, Thou that teachest another teachest not thine own self? And the Bible said, What I say to one I say to all. And when the voice of the Lord comes forth It's just as exciting and thrilling to me as it is to you. The Bible said, Did not our hearts burn within us, as the voice of the Lord came forth, as he walked on the way to Emmaus, and He open the Scriptures on the way. And that's the beautiful thing about the voice of the Lord. It doesn't just tell Bible stories. Which it's wonderful to tell Bible stories. I don't see nothing wrong with it. I think it's wonderful. But when the voice of the Lord comes, the thing that He does is unveil the Word. He opens the Word to us and then it becomes Spirit and Life on the inside as to a quickening to stimulate and to stir our faith. You have to remember that when Enoch was translated he wasn't translated just because he heard something, or even the heavens declaring his handy work as to seeing something. Whereas, the Bible said, And all the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God in the later times, and really the whole earth is filled with the knowledge of God because the Bible said all of the things of God from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear, even to His eternal Godhead so that we are without excuse. So the earth is full of the knowledge of God. But people who do not have the light do not know this and cannot see this. Even the heavens declare His handiwork. So, it is a thrill to be acquainted with the Lord Jesus. Enoch was translated by faith and it is that the hearing that brings us faith if it is the hearing of the Word. So we know that by these nerves of hearing, as in our ears, then we have faith. But faith is not in our head, nor is it in our hearing. Faith is not in our nerve system, as to these conductive nerves that makes us relative to our surroundings and these kind of things. Faith is not there. Faith is in our heart. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and confession unto salvation is made with the lips. So we thus believe in what Jesus has done at Calvary. And believing He purifies our heart and then the spirit comes in and takes up it's abode which is salvation, or eternal like. So we make our confession unto this, and Christ Jesus being the high priest of our confession, and this already having been wrought in Christ before the world ever was then when we believe, as to the purification, the great Spirit comes in to utter forth from our lips as to confess that He has taken up his abode within His temple. I will make your enemies to be at peace with you. I will make them to come to kneel before your feet and know that I have loved you for the Lord of host shall suddenly come into His temple whose temple ye are. Bodily members in particular. So it is a glorious magnificent thing. And of course, when I come up here to talk to you I am literally filled up and overflowing like a great artesian well with no exaggeration at all, like a mighty artesian well. My heart is filled with so much of the great mighty abundance of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Paul said, My much revelation. And I've received a lot of thorns in the flesh to make sure I stay in my orbit and don't get too high minded as to think anything of the flesh. For the flesh profiteth nothing. Not anything. God's got a way of keeping it in tack and a way of handling it without any problems. Satan is ever pressing at it and pushing at it if he can find anybody that knows anything. He's right there ready to grab the flesh, or the body, to create an exuberance, as to human ego that he might project his evil self. And what people don't realize is that when Satan does that he puts God in a confine, as to the inward man, and it's like the little chick in the shell. It is penned up on the inside and it can't really do anything. But I've learned that when you follow Christ and do what the Lord tells you to do, and when you come to the place that you realize that you don't know anything, and you can't do anything, and you can't say anything, that everything's of God. You're doing all right then. This is why the Bible says not many mighty are called. When it comes to diplomacies and men that know a lot in their natural mind and have studied a lot in their natural mind usually the Lord won't call them to the ministry, or if he does allow them to come sometimes it's very little he can ever do with them. The reason is, they have, in doing this they have become such proud person, or so knowledgeable that they can't humble their heart, that even if they try to be humble it is a false humility. And the Bible said because of this not many mighty are called. But He chose ignorant fishermen, and He chose people, most of the people who knew nothing at all and raised them up, and when they heard this they said, Aren't these ignorant fishermen? How is it that we hear these things? And they said concerning Jesus, How do you know letters never having learned? And they said, Well, never man spake like this man, but no diplomacies. And with this it gives God a chance to magnify Himself and to project Himself because when people look at those people they say, Well, my! I know these people don't understand. They couldn't possibly know that. They've not had any real schooling. They've not had any real college. They've not had any diplomacies. How is it these people know these things? it must be God. And so then God is glorified. Well, this is where we need to come to. Whether we know or whether we don't know, as to the world, we need to come to a place to where there is no self-esteem, that we have now in our new life, our new birth a new way of life, God esteemed. And we esteem God very greatly. And we esteem our brother as the body of the Lord Jesus better than ourselves. And we look on the things of another, we submit ourselves one to another, as unto the body of the Lord Jesus, knowing that having done this that we will be rewarded accordingly, as having done this to Almighty God. So then, in these things we realize that Christ is the headstone, and Christ is the great brilliance, and Christ is our love and He's our knowledge, and He's our understanding, and He's our wisdom. And He's the great and mighty one of our lives. He is that that we adore, that we worship, that we love with all of our heart, with all of our mind, with all of our strength. And we just don't have any time for any other thoughts, as to self brilliance. Every thought, even the thoughts of imagination to cast down and every thought is brought into subjection to the obedience of our Lord Jesus Christ to where we can say with Paul, It's not us living but it's Christ that's living within us, and the life we now live we live by that life, as to the faith of the Son of God. In that we are a new creature old things have passed away beginning with us, as that which is so knowledgeable and with our diplomacies, and with our wisdom, with our ambitions, with our thoughts and our goals, and our projects of life. That passes away. And that is killed at Calvary because that is Lucifer, every learning and never able to come to the unveiled, as to having God to open the Scriptures. So we do away with that then the heavens pass away, the earth passes away, everything passes away. It did at Calvary, and we will acknowledge this at the end of the way at that tribulation period, as to the end. Then we will see that heaven has passed away. The earth will pass away, everything will pass away. Which actually takes place at the end of the millennium. Peter said the heavens being on fire. It will melt with fervent heat. Peter said, This tabernacle being dissolved. And then shall appear the beautiful tabernacle that will come to us just before the tribulation period, as to the change. As to the Thessalonian change. Which tabernacle we already have, and already are to the extent of the tabernacle in the wilderness. As to the Moses side of it, the Mosaic side of it, we're already there. And thee Word is already being made flesh. It's already been made spirit in our spirit and now this heavenly treasure we have in the earthen vessel, as to the mind and knowledge of Almighty God that was given to us as a mortality, and eternal life in Christ before the world ever was now it is from a seedling to a diplomacy. We're coming to comprehend the redemption of the body, that which is the purchase possession that He purchased with His blood at Calvary, coming to discover this from glory to glory, from understanding to understanding as to the transformating of the mind. Then we find ourselves, as to the three dimensional projecting, as we've said before, that by translation of Christ's Spirit our spirit is translated immediately into His Spirit and new birth. And this wonderful thing is not seen and nobody knows that anything happened. And maybe two or three people came to the altar and prayed and only one of them was translated in. Though all of them cried and ask for forgiveness and eternal life only one of them received eternal life because the others were not predestinated and wasn't fore-ordained. And since the gifts of God, as to eternal life or whatever it might be, is not given through repentance. As Esau that sought the birthright through repentance, he didn't get it. Jacob received it. So in this, see? When they come to the altar to pray they don't receive this and we suddenly realize that God doesn't give gifts by repentance, that it's given through foreknowledge as to from the beginning of the world. Paul said, Whose names, as to his women workers, are written down in the Lamb's Book of Life, even at the time that they were in the world working with Paul. And God, who is no respecter of persons, who said, Let whosoever will come, it's not that He hath rejected, or been contrary to anybody, or been respecter of persons, but he simply looks down through the telescope of time and he sees that those people are going to repent today and come back and repent tomorrow, and they're going right back to the gullible desires. Like somebody said the other day, that a man that's suppose to be a devout Christian one minute he's talking about religion, the next minute he's asking for a cigarette. See? And He knows that they are not going to live right, they're not going to do right. They are just reflectors and they come down there and He understands. And all of His works being know unto Him from the beginning He thoroughly understands that those people aren't going to do right. So He doesn't bother to write their names down in the Lamb's Book of Life. But having seen you as to your birth and through the entirety of your life, as to the fact that you are not going to turn away from Him, that you are going to continue with Him, knowing that you are not able to continue with Him by your strength as to the fact that you are made a little lower than the angels you don't have the strength to prevail against Lucifer and the fallen angels, therefore He receives you. He sends His spirit into you and He strengthens you and thus you become Satan's master to draw nigh to Christ, to resist the devil and the devil flees from you, because now through Christ, as to the one that conquered Lucifer, you are stronger than Lucifer. And the more that you give yourself to God the fuller of that Spirit you become and the greater you become, the more powerful you become, the more powerful your faith becomes as you do the things that please God, in that you assure your heart and with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. All of these things having been given unto you in Christ before the world ever was, then all you have to do is believe to receive them. But to be able to believe you've got to convince your heart. The Bible said the heart is desperately wicked above all things and who can know it. So, that means that you've got to convince your heart, and in convincing your heart then you do believe and when you do believe that God hears you when you pray you automatically know, John said, that you have the petition that you desire of Him because they've freely been given you before the world ever was before foreknowledge by the blood. And they're already yours anyway. All of it's already yours. You don't have to try to get good enough for God to give it to you. He's already given it to you. He so loved you while you were yet in your sins that He gave it to you. He so loved you that he died for you while you were yet in your sins. He so loved you while you were ever born into the world that He died for you and He gave you all of these things. And He is like the sunshine that shines down from heaven; He never changes, nor does He go out into darkness. He just goes to the other side of the world, as we say, when this side of the world won't have Him. So He's ever there. There is nothing between you and Him except those clouds of doubt, and the Bible said don't be of a doubtful mind. And the war in heaven, as to a continual warfare between the body and the Spirit is those thoughts, as to one thought as to one thing, as to another though another thing as to the mind of God and the mind of Satan. Or the mind of Christ and the mind of Lucifer. And in this Paul said, as to the fulfillment of the law, are these things by which we find our way through this intellectual wilderness. He said our thoughts are the means while accusing or else excusing one another. We either receive the thought or reject the thought. So the continual warfare which is show to us by the clouds, the thunder, the lightning, the casting out of Lucifer and as to those hot and cold clouds coming together fighting fiercely, which represents the angelic beings, as to their realm. When the ones from Christ, as to the third heaven tries to get to us to cross the second heaven, Satan's kingdom being set up there, then the intercept comes. And as it was in the days of Daniel when the angels of God tried to come to minister to Daniel to give him the great wonderful message from God they were intercepted by Lucifer's angels, which was in the second heaven. And when they tried to break through they couldn't and they had to go back for reinforcement and more angels came and they fought fiercely until they broke through. And when they broke through they came to Daniel, and Daniel who was fasting and praying for twenty-one days, he said, I've been mourning before God for twenty-one days and he kept on. The angel said, Daniel, we heard you the first day that you prayed. God heard you. See? It's not the fasting and prayer that makes God hear us, nor makes God love us, or having to do special things to become special with God. We are already the apple of His eye. And we're already His by foreknowledge, but the thing is, this middle wall of partition, this great barrier, this great power of Lucifer that's in between, see? he is controlling man and he is perverting man's attention, diverting it. And when the angels who are great in power and in might come to minister to us, in that they are ministering spirits to the heirs of salvation and ministering spirits for the heirs of salvation, when this happens Satan, who is also an angelic being, other angelic beings, they come in to protect their kingdom and they begin to fight fiercely to keep God from taking the body, because without the body they don't have any kingdom, because the body has to do with the second heaven. And of course, many multiplied hundreds of thousands of things that we'd have to say to be able to complete these things. But in this, enough to where you can understand from time to time what we're trying to say. The angels did break through. They did get to Daniel. They did give him the answer because Daniel refused to let go and he kept holding on and holding on and putting the body down to where Satan could not resist the moving of the Spirit, in that he kept fasting and keeping the body weak, and keeping the zeal and the infatuations of the body, as to the gullible desire of human senses, he kept it under a constraint to where the devil didn't, couldn't interfere and it allowed the angels to break through to get to him. God cannot look upon iniquity, and Daniel had to humble that heart and cleanse that body by that foreknowledge of that Lamb that was slain. And in this the angles came and ministered. And when they came they said, Oh, beloved man of God, said, We heard you the first day, said, but the Prince of Persia withstood us. And I say again, a lot of times we say, Well, Prince of Persia, what do you mean, Brother Pike? I'm just talking to you as a father would a child. This is the way Jesus would do anyway. But you say, Well, what do you mean by that? Well, the devil has certain provinces and over these he appoints great leaders, mighty angels. Some which are greater than others. Like the Bible speaks in the book of Revelation, as an Angel flying through the air. His light was so great all the world was enlightened. And God sends down people with messages. God sends down angelic beings. Even John was a man sent from God, but because they are born of woman then people don't understand. But see? The Bible said in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son. He was made of a woman and the greatest light of all was in Him. As a matter of fact, the light of the world was in Him. He was the fullness of the light. But as great angels as the Prince of Persia Satan appoints them, and as God does the same thing, well, then when the angel came, or the angels came they had to fight with the Prince of Persia. And with this they finally broke through. He didn't want them to get into his province and the Medo-Persians of that day back over there where Daniel was, in that area, see? the one ruling there did not want them to get through to Daniel. And this is the same way it is with us today except we now have the infilling of the Spirit because the breaking through, as to Daniel, also had to do with the revelation which was in the veil. Which was really a vision. Bringing out a few of these things to Sister Betty the other night from the book of Daniel. I wish we had the plenty of time to go into this, but my heart is so filled up and enlarged to the people, and my mind is so, as to Satan pressing that I should not do this, as to bring the message and especially in that when people gather together Satan is also in our midst. There are false brothers and sisters that are reflectors and they come here. They want to understand this. They want to here this, but see, really it's demons, false brothers and sisters. Paul said, I was in peril of false brothers and sisters. So was Jesus as to Judas. And Satan perverting James and Johns mind to want to call fire down. And Peters mind, as to boasting in the flesh as to what he would do when others could not. And all these kind of things, see? to cause problems. So when Job, as in his day, there came Satan, as to the Sons of God there came the ones that were by foreknowledge, as before the throne that Job saw and then there came Satan, also to present himself. And so when the great altars of God are seen, recognized, then these people who will not live right, they are even ministers that transform themselves from their natural understanding and their gullible desires for flesh, when the anointing comes, in that the blood is on the seat of atonement and this rain on the tare, they just have themselves a time because they all live by the same life. And they transform their minds. They have a power of transforming their minds because of the grace. And they can get up here and minister the Words of light, but they don't really have the light. They haven't conceived of the light. They really don't have Christ on the inside, but you can't tell the difference because of the grace. See? And a little tare, you can't tell the difference until the harvest comes. Sometimes Johnson grass will spring up. Knowing this from being a little boy as a farmer. It will look just like your corn. And the roots will actually choke the life out. And the parasites will take the life and cause the corn to be dwarfed. Well, with this, when these bodies come, these human forms come, they are just reflectors. But they don't have Christ. They are not conceived of Christ. They're not travailing until Christ be formed within them, as to the diplomacy as to a full measure of God, or as to whatever measure as to the membership. See? They are not travailing. They will not equip themselves with a mind to suffer. They do not deny themselves of anything, as to worldliness, and fleshly desire and zip and all of their ambition, as to this religious reflection is to, as it was said of the Jews, the Zeal of thine house has eaten thee up. And your body, of course is the house of God and your human zeal leaves no place for the great wonderful Spirit or the Word of God, as to His thoughts and His knowledge. Your ambition, as to your own thoughts, your own project in life. I say again, As the writer said, your program that's so well planned that you leave out His part. Well, these people come, see? And this is the reflection. This is the chance for them to learn good and evil. This is where they come from the animal realm to come into this that kind of like the garden thing yonder when Adam and Eve had this flashed upon them to become knowledgeable as gods and to go back to their own realm. And then it is required of them that they should live right. Which they cannot do because there is no way that they can live right. They come to the acknowledgment of it with the reflection but there is no way that they can live right. And coming into this they now have no performance. Satan said, As Gods, which was true, but no performance. Now as a will, Paul said Jesus Christ is our performance. He didn't say this, but what he did through his teachings if you can understand the revelation, that's what he was saying. Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I have a will, as to the inward man, but I find no performance, because what I would do I don't do and what I would not do that I find myself doing. And I've decided it's not me doing it. It must be this contrary body and the devil within it and I've got to get rid of this old intellectual giant, which is called Paul the know all. And he did. It was called Saul the know all and he changed to Paul who became Christ, the one that really knows the tree of life. And the old intellectual, as to the tree of knowledge, went away and the scales fell from the eyes. So I said all of that to say this. See? Now you come into this light. Now you are illuminated. Now you know. Now it's required of you and there is no performance except for the children of God. And Jesus Christ is their performance. All that is needed He did. And since their body is dead by Calvary, as delivered for offenses, then they are now the lovely body of that performance. They are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. So that take's care of it in the natural. And they have no interference because the first Adam is dead and gone. And their spirit has been moved into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and now they are the great wonderful mighty resurrected one. All right. So I know then that people are here. They come regular. They are among us. I have to reprove, rebuke these kind of people because they come to spy out our liberty and then they spit on us, or to make mock of us. And you would say, Brother Pike, you know that no one would come and spit on you. Oh, yes, I've had them to come and spit in my face. And it's a good test for you. You find out if you've got the love of God. And I have been able by the grace of God to go right on with the love of God and love them and help them. So when these people come they are but reflectors. Satan is on the inside of them. They will not live right. They have the love of the world in them, they will do the things of the world, and the child is known by his doings. But you that are the blessed eternal children of light you have this wonderful seed of divine conception and you are the children of God and I travailed until Christ be formed within you, as with the Word, so that you can one day lay aside the shadows, as to the Day Star dawning from within to eradicate those shadows and there will stand the body of the Lord Jesus Christ of which you already are when the shadows of this intellectual doubtful mind is gone. So, faith is the power. That is where the power comes from, as to the gospel being the power. It is dispensed through faith. And it is said to us, if we can ask and doubt not. And the doubt there, as to what Paul said, is being not of a doubtful mind. Peter said, Be not of a doubtful mind. And it pointed it out that we are not to be of a doubtful mind, and a doubtful mind is a mind of Lucifer, as to the double-mindedness. Let you eye, your eye of understanding, be single. (Begin tape one, side two.)... of a doubtful mind. So have the mind of Christ, the pure mind. Stir it up within you because it is not of a doubtful mind. Paul said all the promises of God in Christ Jesus are yea and amen. We do not come to you preaching the gospel saying yea and nay. He said, We come to you preaching the gospel saying yea. So when I preach to you I'm not saying yea and nay. I'm preaching to you yea, for all the promises of God are yea and amen. So, let's don't be of a doubtful mind. All right. Let's read just a verse or two and we'll take to you just a little more this morning. In the book of Philippines, as to the Philippines, let's read chapter two. "If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Now, this is a wonderful thought because when we say glory, to the glory of the Father, only the heir, Christ in you the hope of that glory, I say this to you again, there is no human performance. There is no ritualistics, as to formalities that can bring you into the presence of God. Coming to church can't do it. Giving to God cannot do it. Praying cannot do it. Fasting cannot do it. Becoming a great Bible scholar, even from beginning to end cannot do it. There is nothing that can do it. Nothing in heaven or earth, or under the earth can do it. There is no one that can do it. God is no respecter of persons. It must be Christ. He alone is made heir to the glory of God. And the reason He alone is made heir is because there has never been, there never will be, there isn't as of this time anyone that is of the quality, or caliber, to be able to perform the things that are to be required to be heir to that glory. There is no such thing, because all flesh has corrupted it's way before God. All is born in sin and the spirit of foolishness is in the child's heart, even at the beginning and requires a rod of correction, even as a child, to keep him straight. And even though these misdemeanors, as to sin is not imputed unto him for where there is no sin, sin is not imputed. But, nevertheless, he's going through that stage of correction, as pointing him to the time when he will become knowledgeable. Now, so no one hath any power to become the heir to this. Jesus Christ alone wrought salvation. Jesus Christ alone was heard of God. All other is corruptible flesh and in Adam all die. All have been born of Adam. But Jesus Christ was not born of Adam. He was not born of passions, as to the will of man, but He was born by the great Holy Spirit as to the mighty Holy Ghost, which is His Father, as to be an inspiration, as to the virgin womb and then the divine conception that He should take on the form of a man, humbling Himself as to the form of a man. This great wonderful Christ that was with God before the world ever was. The image in which you are made. He came and took on that image to let you know that he made that image and that is His image and the devil has stolen it. And the Scientist say you are nothing but beast, but because of it being His image He came to redeem it and take it away from the mind of the devil, because you are suppose to be a temple of life and He is the Prince of Life that has come to live in you that you may have the abundance of life without an travail, without any work whatsoever, and all this work you have to do to make a living and out in the cold and all of this travail that you have to do to bring forth children, God did not intend that upon you. He wanted you to be happy. You don't have to work in God. And what must we do to work the works of God. He said, This is the works of God. I am the works of God. This was finished from the foundation of the world. This kind of faith that I'm speaking of needs no works. This is the faith of Jesus Christ and I am the one that  I do the work. So Paul said, Then this life, new life, this new birth, life that I now live I live by the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me, or I live this life in the flesh by the faith of the Son of God. So, we see where that faith is. To contend for that faith, as to the redemption of the body. Now Jesus alone was worthy. When the books were opened, as to open the Scripture that are hearts might burn within us, they searched through heaven and they couldn't find anyone, not even an angelic being, not even Michael, or Gabriel, or the greats. No one could loose the seals on that book. And then they searched through the earth, as to man, as to his greatness, as to the Einstein's or whatever they might be of yesterday, or today, or tomorrow, as to the future, and they could not find a one with all of it's brilliance that could get beyond that veil and penetrate. Paul, the great mighty learned one with reputation, so great that even the elites of that day knew of his reputation through Gamaliel and said, Paul, much learning makes thee mad. But he couldn't penetrate. He couldn't get near it. All he did was become a murdered and over confident person and God struck Him down. And when God struck him down the light showed him that he was blind and he had to go down the street called straight, come through the name of Jesus Christ and then the scales were taken from his eyes and he became the great leader, as to the overseer of the Gentile Church for Christ opened the Scriptures to him, as to the revelation. He is the one that went out among the Gentiles to get a bride, Christ going for a bride, the revelation from within the body of Jesus, as to the revealed, Peter taking it on as Jesus to the Jews, and here Paul took it on as to the Christ to the spiritual Jew, the true Jew. And he came with a light. Christ came. Paul said, Not me, but Christ, as the unveiled, or the revelational light. And though gross darkness has covered the people it was said that in the evening time it shall come to pass that there shall be light. And this light that shines in the darkness, as to the unveiled, it has sprang up to them that set in the shadow of death, which is darkness in that light is light, and it has sprang up with them but they could not comprehend this great light. But ye that are children of light you comprehend the heights, the depths, and the width of this, because the great Holy Spirit, the Bible said your understanding being enlightened, and understanding is the tree of life. Well, anyway, in this we know then that there was only one that came forth when this book was brought. And here He was. It was a lamb in the midst of the elders, and He was there with His eyes, as to the seven eyes of God. And He was there standing before the throne as a Lamb that had been slain and He came forth, this wonderful lion of the tribe of Judah. He came forth and He took the book out of the hands of the Ancient of Days. And He took the Book, or that is to say, God, the eternal Spirit as filling the heavens, as there upon the throne Jesus, the Lamb, a human body got close enough to the Spirit and became interwoven with the Spirit to the extent that that Spirit was made flesh, and that life was made a human form and it walked among us as a human form, the fullness of life. God administrating through the wonderful blood of the Son of God, that life, that eternal life, that God, the great Spirit within the blood, within the life, that new life, in that He had to openly give, or spill, as it would be symbolically, the blood that showed the red dragon, as to the blood of the first man Adam, as to that of the breath of life which had become corrupted. And I wish I had the hunger and thirst this morning to be able to go into that. I shared a few things with the brethren the other day, but I don't feel any drawing or anything. I just feel an interest this morning and we've just got to talk to you a little. I thought maybe I might find just a little bit of hunger and thirst. You know, I told you that interest will not do it. To hunger and thirst ye shall be filled. But just an interest, a reverence, won't do it. You can fool me with that, as to being a reflector. That is where reflection comes in, but you cannot fool God. See? God looketh on the heart, and He is looking for the hunger in the heart. His eyes are throughout the earth beholding the good and the evil. He's looking for the upright in heart to show Himself strong in their behalf. So I don't feel anything. Just reaching out for God this morning, and it's just a matter of a reverence for your pastor this morning to hear what he has to say, and then when it's all over you want to go wherever, as to the cafe and those kind of things, because that's where the hunger and the thirst is. But going on with out little thought this morning, in that I see I'm not going to be able to get into what I wanted to. There are some things that I really wanted to get into and would have thrilled the children of the Lord. There isn't enough hunger for me to even keep my thoughts, strong enough for me to even really keep my thoughts. Too much carnality. And carnality is, of course, an interference. It is a spirit. It's a life. It's an interference. It's a natural life that Satan interferes through and it's enmity to God. But going on and see if I can even find the mind of Christ in my thoughts again, to even finish my little sermonette here, or the exhorting. So. We'll pick here as to wherever we can to see if we can get back into the mind of the Lord Jesus. So then, we know then that we are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. We know that we have the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is speaking to those that are real true Christians. And we know that we are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we know that we are those that do not dwell in the earth, but we dwell in heaven. We are those that already dwell in heaven. We are not in the world. We are not in the flesh. We've been chose as a spiritual Son of God to a Father who is a spirit. We've been chosen out of this body, this flesh, and we are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoration, or the return of the great and mighty coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the birth as to the headship and that from that as to Thessalonians change when these members shall come together again with Christ. And now, coming back into the mind of the Lord, as to the thoughts. See? It was the Lamb that went forth and He took the book. He took the book out of the hands of this great wonderful God, this God who was a spirit that took on a human form. The Bible said, humbling Himself as to the form of a man. And with this wrought the works of Salvation, finished the course, from the manger, as to the stable of the beast, as to that creature, as to where he had fallen, that creature that was subjected to the vanities of the world, put on his belly because all of his labor is for his belly and his mouth, as to the old generation of vipers. That is to say, Satan from the tree of knowledge. Lucifer within that image, as to the seed that the enemy had sown, as to the seed of the serpent. And everyone that don't go by Calvary, as to the rent veil, then that means that they are a serpent that is not as to a worm, unto the metamorphosis, or the change to a butterfly. Which means that on the inside they do not have this wonderful spirit, as to the seedling of Christ, as to their measure. They don't have this. And so as some worms continue on, and the cocoon does not break open and a butterfly does not come from them, then that means that they are the seed of the serpent. Jacob thy worm. If it is the right kind of worm there is a seedling as to Christ within that image of Adam who is the worm, and all of us having to do with the worm, as to our first birth. See? When this cocoon is broken at Calvary, as to those that go by the way of the new birth, as to the rent veil, as to the baptism in the name of the Lord, as to the resurrection of the newness of God as to the new creature and the new world which makes them bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, as to the heavenly, heavenly one, the Lord Jesus Christ that just ascended right before their very eyes. Having power over the gravitational laws of nature and all of the laws of Moses He just went right out of this world. So they that go by Calvary that is the proof, as to the breaking of the cocoon and the smiting of the old serpent and the head of the serpent and as to the rent veil, as to this wonderful butterfly or the seed of the Son of God, as to the heavenly one, you know, as to when we said this yesterday to give some illustration as to what we are saying, when Moses brought them out of Egypt, as the old serpent body, had them there going through the wilderness, it was that Calvary, as to the allegorics when the mountain burned with fire that the cocoon was broken. The stone was broken. The rent veil between the two stones, as to one broken and one fulfilled as it went into the ark and it was taken over the Jordan, as we would say. Whereas, the stones went into the ark. But it was broken. It was thrown down. Or that is to say, the opening of the cocoon when Moses said, These grumblers, these mumblers, these calf worshippers, these people that are after gold and silver and food and all these kind of things, as to the sufficing of the belly. He said, If I be a man of God, he said, let the earth open up and let them go down to the pit quickly. And so the cocoon opened and it was broken, as to the natural of that of the dust of which you are made. And it opened up, as to that grave that had swallowed up life. See? And out of that, out of that ascends those things of the bottomless pit to take you. And so the people, as to the elders that came out of wilderness, down to the pit they went quickly. And then after that, out of their loins came the lovely butterfly of the youth full of life. And the little butterfly, as of the covenant, came out. And our kids run after butterflies. And out of that came the new birth, as to the children. And then out of the cocoon of Moses came Joshua, for when Jesus could not go over and was delivered for our offenses, the prophet like unto as to Moses and then here comes Joshua. Or that is, the Spirit of Christ, out of that cocoon. And coming out of that cocoon as the children went over into Canaan, then as to the butterfly and the covenant and the new world so have we been hid with Christ in God. We've crossed the Jordan of the intellectual and we've gone into heaven and we're now in the body of the Lord Jesus. That life dispensed through that headship to you and I, as to a control of that wonderful opening of the Word, and Christ on the inside of us. Now we are now released as from this bodily grave and the heart of stone gone, and the Son of God, which is the Spirit of Christ, as to the wonderful butterfly. Little harmless thing that loves the flowers, and loves to present itself in the springtime, then it went away. See? And everyone went by the way of Calvary to the rent veil. And now you are dwelling in heaven. You are a heavenly creature. You are no longer bound with gravitational forces of mother earth and these gravitation laws, but you are the one that's at liberty. Whereas, the Bible said stand fast in the liberty wherein God hath made you free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage, as to the fleshly desire of these human senses. Don't be bound again. Don't go back to the old way of the old bonds child, which is that intellectual cocoon of the old worm, ever learning and don't know nothing, of that brilliance of the body that's ever gullible, desiring passions and cars and houses and money and frolics and appearances and all of these kind of things. But give your bodies a living sacrifice to God because the body is the Lord's. Give it to the Lord. How can I give my body a living sacrifice to the Lord? To keep sacrificing my desire, and my thoughts and my ways, and my infatuations, and all of my desires and ambitions until there is not one thought left of me, as to a desire, or to an ambition and every thought is brought into subjection to the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ and my imagination and all of my desire is completely eradicated with the brightness of the light. These shadows of a doubtful mind is gone. And then in my stead stands Christ. Not me living but Christ that the Lord my have His body, and that the devil, as to that intellectual one that's got the body right now, having taken control of the weakness of your spirit, as that which is weaker or made a little lower than the angels eradicate by the light, by the power of God and make manifest this heavenly treasure in your earthen vessel, as to the body of the human being. Eradicates the infiltration to where you are holy in body and in spirit. Let's say just one of two things here. I still don't feel a great deal of hunger, but I feel a little bit of hunger. Let's say something here. It's not enough to even keep the mind of God speaking very clear. But let me explain something here as to just a few little words of exhortation and we're going to let you go to the cafes, and whatever. Now, why did Jesus take on the form of a man? Why? A lot of times we just kind of get into a little teaching here and then drop in a little tad of revelation as to the opening of the Scriptures because I can keep your mind as long as I talk about Bible stories or tell things, something that relates to your natural, no problem to keep your attention because you have an interest. See? Why is it that He took on the form of a servant? That is to say, a human form, because you are a servant when you are not a son. And through Adam you are a servant. Why did He take on the form of a servant? Because He could do that. God could do that. How could God do that? Knowing that we are sinful and that He would come in the form of a servant as to that sinful image? How could He do that and still be holy and godly and pure with a human body? Because first of all there is no sin to the body. There is no sin to the body. Though we ever seem so sinful, and Paul said, Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Yet the truth of it is that body was infiltrated with a mind, and Paul said, I see this mind and it's another law. It's another law. It's not the law of the spirit as to liberty within my spirit, as to my desire as to will toward God for inwardly I have a desire to please God, but this is a thing of infiltration which is in my flesh and he said it's warring against this law of my mind which is the law of liberty, which is Christ's Word unto life. And it is bringing me into condemnation by an intimidation of the weakness of my flesh as to the natural law of Moses which said, Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not lie. Thou shalt not do all these things, and I find that I'm guilty. I'm guilty in my flesh. All flesh has corrupted it's way before God and I find that I'm guilty in my flesh. And these things are constantly an intimidation to me, as bringing back these things to my mind. Satan is constantly bringing them back to keep me from making contact with God, as to bring this body into this wonderful liberty of the sons of God for the Bible said the creature, which is the body which has been made subject to vanity shall also be delivered from the bondage of this life, as to those senses, and won't have to be bound as a bonds child to those human senses, as to that which is necessitated to life, or that is defendant upon the beggarly elements of the world. The creature that has been subjected to the same through these senses shall be released and he shall also come into the glorious liberties of the sons of God. Now, what does this mean as to the great mystery of God? It is saying, Now, beloved, you are already the son of God as to your spiritual man on the inside. There is an inner and an outer man and the spiritual man is already in the liberties of the sons of God. Every thing is already perfected forever, sanctified once and for all. Justified, sanctified and glorified. And he is an instrument of light on the inside. He is a man, an image of light. And because of this light which means understanding, as to the word of spirit, light and faith, that it is a shield of light against Satan. And that darkness can't get near that shield because light causes a disintegration, a darkness. So then, the shield of light comes forth, and with this as to faith, all the fiery darts of the wicked is completely eradicated and quenched. And that means that he cannot touch you. You are perfect in that light and you keep yourself perfect and the evil one touches you not. You are without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. The work is already done. You are eternal. You are already a son of God. You are already in heaven. You have already made the translation. You were translated into the Kingdom of God by faith, see? And that faith of Jesus Christ is what wrought it for you. See? But there is the outside, as to the woman that carried this child, travailing until it be formed within the womb of your heart. See? And with this on the inside, this light, it is now a son of God though it be in an infant state, as to the embryo, or as to that which is maturing. See? Yet we know, whether it be as to the fetus, or whatever it might be, it is that and we know that is life. And we know that it is that which is holy and pure. It is righteous. It is godly. It is that thing that must come forth from our heart. God is bringing forth a man child in me and you, as the song says. So then, in this we know that this child is coming forth. So you are already the sons of God. It doeth not yet appear what ye shall be like for the child cannot be seen until the birth. And yet it's already a birth as with God because he sees a finished product. We are already born again. Someone would say, But, Brother Pike, if we're born again why can't we see the image? Why cannot we see the image? And if we're born again? But see? This is what you don't understand. The image has nothing to do with it. The image that you are in is the image of the devil. It is the image of the beast. You are down here and you are a beast. Some brute beast made to be taken and burned. And see, the born again  God is a spirit and from the time of the conception, as to this thing in the mind of God and the travail of Calvary, you were born again. But when Christ went through all of this, as to down into hell and these things, it would have to take a long time to explain as in detail. When He came forth from the womb of mother earth that was the birth. The very minute that the head breaks forth from the matrix that means that there has been a birth because as to the travail of the woman (I say this again.) the travail of the woman is as to the head that breaks forth from the matrix. And then after that as to the hand maids, and whatever, as to the decency of expression, then after that the child is brought forth by an aid. See? And so that means that in this, when Christ broke forth from the womb of mother earth that was the birth. And as to that Christ body that was the completeness of your membership and your life, which is in Christ as to the new life within the new blood, all of a sudden it went up into heaven. And it's there at the right hand of the Father. So, the Lord sees you as a complete thing. You've been born again. Now, all of this life is given back to you in a membership as to say that the sins, the evils, all of your wretchedness is now taken away. You've been swallowed in the blood, caught up to the Father's arms, and here you are safe. That Christ Spirit leaving that body has come back into your heart. And in this, this heavenly treasure which you already have means that you are now eternal. You are now the son of God and your body is now the body of the Lord Jesus Christ at the right hand of the Father a finished product and that which you now are, as to human sight, has been killed. It's been destroyed. It's been taken away. The image has fallen. Fallen. Babylon the great is fallen. The image is fallen like lightning from heaven. Jesus said, I beheld him fall from heaven. I saw this as lightning, as to the open door, when the thunder came. And out of that came the thunders as to the seven thunders of what we say as to the casting out of Lucifer that is to be made manifest as in Revelation 10 and 7. or as in 11; 15 when the last trumpet sounds. And going to Revelation 12 where the war is in heaven and the angels fight and out Lucifer goes, to a personification. As we said the other day, coming up out of the bottomless pit, which we don't have time to go into. I'd like to go into it but we don't have time to go into it. But, anyway, Judas the son of perdition going to his place as being among the Jews, as to bring in what the Bible speaks of as the manslayer and the revenger of blood. To go into the revelation would take quite a long while. But anyway, coming out of the bottomless pit, Judas will come up out of the bottomless pit, coming up out of the waters. The Mediterranean Sea being what John saw, as to having to do with this, coming up from among the waters. That is, among the people who represent waters. And coming up out of the ocean because the ocean is considered as to be the bottomless pit. Cannot fathom the depths, as to the power of crushing, the weight, as going down deep, deep, and in the bottom that's under there. Hell that maketh the ocean to boil like a pot, as to the waves and whatever. But anyway, speaking of this, Judas went to his place. Coming back in a personification to the papacy.... (Begin tape two, side one.) Well, well anyway, I have to run through that, rush through that just to get just to drop a thought or two. But we know then that we are already sons of God. We know then that we are already what we are forever going to be and we have always been that in the mind of Christ, and we are the seed of life that passed through this cocoon, as to the fallen Adam. And this has great significance, great meaning and takes hours to be able, as Paul three years trying to understand as to what the Lord was saying about that. So, we realize that we are already sons of God. Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. And the sons of God shall marry the church, the church being the human body as to this inner son making itself manifest in this outer body as the woman that's carrying the child, as to the woman having an inheritance by means of the birth of the child. Great is the mystery of God. And I have to compact it so here that I don't get the chance to detail it to you. Well, anyway, this means that we are already sons of God. But what about the creature? What about this creature? It's the woman. How is she the creature? She separated herself from Adam, which was taken out of Adam in the original creation and she was Mrs. Adam. And when she separated herself from Adam she became the beast because she took his mind and she became the creature, as to the flesh which was a natural representation as to that thing which was to spiritually be shown. Which means that the human body, even Adam, becoming one with her, now it was not her one with Adam in the original creation as the son of God to the illumination. It was now her as a beast and Adam becoming one with her by losing the Shekinah covering of the glory and denying the wonderful mind of God. No longer the Son of God as to the beautiful illumination but becoming one with Eve, as to the beast, and then fell from this illumination and thus today man is the woman. He is now the beast. He is now the creature. Having been subjected to vanity through the fall by listening to Satan and taking the tree of knowledge rather than Eve listening to Adam and taking the tree of life, in that He was the tree of life and he was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And this is what brought on the birth, the fornication, all the adulterous things that's done today and the perversion of how people have to be born into the world. So then, we understand where we're going and where we're coming from and where we are at this point, because we realize that the people of the world, that is Eve, that is the harlot. And it brings forth the image of the devil. But then when we see the replacement of this and we realize that, as I said, when the Black Widow has swallowed up the male, as to not having a headship, as to say the Lord Jesus Christ, then that means now man is within woman as to that which is the new birth of Christ Jesus coming from within to be born of a woman, or the headship that was born of Mary. Not a harlot as Eve but being born of Mary the virgin. And with this the right body of holiness and godliness, as to the replacement of Adam and back as the son of God. And yet he had to go through all of this as to the expulsion of the garden, falling into sin, becoming an image of sin and to be smitten to show the smiting of the serpent and the doing away with the human body of the wretched man that I am by my first birth because it showed what happened at the garden and the garden experience. Well, we can't go into all of that. We're just about ready to close now. But, anyway, with this we realize that this inner son of God must redeem this outer creature, or this inner man, which is the male by virtue of birth, Christ interwoven within you. Now it is the headship. It is the mind. It is the understanding that's trying to get it's body back, which is it's wife in that Adam was made for the body of the spirit, as to the wife of the spirit. The body is the wife of the spirit. That's why it's called the bride in the new birth. See? And it is the wife. And as Adam was lost from God Adam was His wife. That was His wife, the Son of God. So when the male, or the Spirit, lost the female, or the body, it could not project itself through the body for reproduction of images unto the beauty of life, because God is the abundance of life that projects Himself in all forms of images from birds and trees, fish, all these kind of things and that is His delight. And when this perverted thing got in the way, as to the old tree of knowledge of good and evil it infiltrated and brought forth an evil end to mankind as a ruler of darkness which means death. And it got between the light which means life and the spirit of mankind and has dominated unto death. And in the day that thou eatest thereof ye shall do into darkness which is death, intellectual ignorance. You can't find God anymore. And so then, we realize then the body, this wonderful body of Jesus Christ that through this male He hath taken His bride. He met Satan between heaven and earth, as to the second heaven. And Revelation records it and the great mighty battle was on. And He overthrew the powers of evil. And the man child caught up cast Lucifer out. He cast im out. So then, in our heart he is no more. He took His bride back, which was the body. As to the woman, He went with her all the way down into the grave and she did not see corruption. Before  Within three days there is corruption to the body. Before the three days He brought her out. The soul of the woman went down into hell. That's where the life was and He stood with her that the flames of hell could not devour her, nor did God suffer His soul to remain in hell. As to our soul, it passed right on through, as to the purging to bring about the new blood, as to the new life. And then the spirit went down into paradise to preach to the souls in prison, even into your heart of the earth to loose your soul that was imprisoned by this intellectual fallacy of life. Not life but perverted life. So then, in this we find that the sons of God, they are redeeming this creature that was made subject to vanity by the intellectual reasoning of human senses, or that which makes them relate to the earth, that which they are dependent upon as to feed the mouth and the belly, because it craves it of them. Or that is, their appetite. The appetite wants this to stay alive in the intellectual senses, which is only human feeling as to the blindness of the creature of darkness that they really are. The darkness being the intellectual power of constraint that has control of them, as unto death, as to say the pit, darkness, that is death. You are caught in the radius of that and dead while you live in the trespasses of sin because you cannot get to light, which is life. Jesus said when He come, He said, He that heareth my words and believeth on Him that sent me he hath passed from death unto life and shall never come into condemnation. So in this we know that God looked down from heaven, heard the groaning of the prisoners, loosed those that were appointed unto death in a day, as to Calvary, a day accepted He succored them. Well, anyway, this is what I'm saying in a few words. He took on the form. Why did He take on the form? Because there is no sin to the creature. The creature, the Bible said, was subjected to vanity. Not by reason of us, but by reason of Him who subjected the same in hope. Some of these things we've gone through, some of these things we haven't. But, anyway, that creature will be redeemed from the beggarly elements of the world into the glorious liberties of the sons of God which is that on the inside, which dwells in heaven, or it will be taken from the bondage of this intellectual infatuation of life, this thirst of those things to which it relates and is held in bondage, as to the beggarly elements and this world of fantasy shall pass away. This reflection, as to the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life, the old serpents ground as to the dust, this world shall pass away. And it already has for us and will be made manifest at the end of the age because we are a new creature in a new world. We have been buried in baptism and left the old cocoon and coming up out of the waters to the rent veil of Calvary we are now the son of God and we are now carrying the identity as to those that are called by My name. If they will call upon heaven I will hear and I will heal their lands. That is, call upon Me. So in this we know that Jesus took on the form of a servant. Why? My! What I would like to say about that, as to life. The origin of life and death and what the difference as to the differentiating is. But this body  We know then that the body, every sin is without the body except the sin of fornication. And He that sinneth the sin of fornication sinneth against his body. So, as I said in the past, to clarify this that it won't be confusing to you we'll say every sin is without the body except the sin of fornication. And of course that is not without the body. Now what is he saying? He is saying that the body is involved when it comes to fornication. That is what he is saying. But is the body guilty? It is guilty, as to the charge, because it in involved. It allowed itself it do that. But then, if the body sins in any matter for the fornication, or whatever it might be, why does it continue to commit it's fornication when it's lying in the grave. No, see? The body without the spirit is dead, which makes it evident that all sin is without the body. And what Paul is saying then, all of the sin is a spiritual thing. It is a mind. That thing within me. I have a will, as to good, but a performance in my body I can't find it. There's a devilish thing that the god of this world, even Lucifer, and through the human senses of that which I am in bondage to, as to the creature being subjected, or dependent upon that of the earth, subjected to, or dependent upon, he said, this causes me a problem. Therefore, he said, I don't know what to do. I don't know how to handle this thing. And so then, God killed the body and done away with that and released the spirit. The spirit being translated into the kingdom, as to the interwoveness of your spirit into Christ's Spirit. Now you are in the liberties of the son's of God. And make this manifest, as to the wrought work of Jesus Christ into perfection. Don't get into ritualistics, calling that holiness. That's not holiness. God is holiness. Make manifest in your body holiness, this heavenly treasure as to this faith and the works of Jesus Christ, as to this life of Christ manifested in your mortal genes, to be holy in body and spirit. So then, the work is finished. Jesus said, It is finished. Your faith is finished. I'm the author of it. I finished it at Calvary. I started it. I finished it. Now, this body  And right here is where we're closing. This body therefore is the purchased possession, the earnestness of that inheritance is as to like buying a car. You give him a little money down as earnest money. You have the earnestness of your inheritance as to this on the inside which is Christ in you the hope of that glory, which means Jesus, the transfigured on the mount of transfiguration. The glory that shall be revealed in you, even in your human body. Immortality that was in God before the world ever was as the body of Lord Jesus, and now immortality is brought to light at the rent veil which is Calvary. Light means understanding, not as to spiritual eternal life, but immortality, which means it pertains to your natural physical being. And this is what Satan has looked for. This is why Satan has emphasized reading books, study this thing. Read, study. We've got to find this eternal life. And this is why he magnifies schools. He forces your children into schools, ever studying, generation after generation. See? And keeping you blind, as to the iniquity knowing that God cannot look upon you. And as long as you are in that body, that body of iniquity, it's there. Paul said that contrary thing. See? And Satan keeping you at college and keeping you in school, and it's turned into lasciviousness. It's turned into freaks. It's turned into dog eat dog. It's turned into every kind of foolishness to lesbians and to sodomites. And the Bible said they dishonor their bodies one between another. Because they didn't have a love for the truth I turned them over to a reprobate mind. I sent them strong delusions and they dishonored their bodies one to another, leaving the natural use of the woman, as to reproduction and through their lust burned in their lust going one after another, man with man working that which is unseemingly, and women with women working that which is unseemingly, forcing these into the school as teachers. And forcing us to take out of the school the Word of God and the knowledge of God and the bewitching devil of the woman that's doing this, and going before the congress when in the days of Washington and Lincoln they would have spit in her face. And these so-called leaders of today, being of the devil, takes this thing and works with that one woman against all of the government, which means the people, in that the government is of the people, by the people and for the people. And they take that bewitching thing and work against them and the people don't do anything about it. Saying, What can we do? Militant force, law force, what can we do? Well, you'd be surprised. But anyway, like I said as to this, we know then that the creature shall be delivered. We know that he's the wretch. We know that he's the culprit, but it's not because it is the body. It is an infiltration of this mind that Paul spoke of and the eradication of that is that you already have this light to make this knowledge of understanding as a light manifest in your mortal genes, as the male on the inside to the woman to bring the woman under subjection and take her as from, like from her family over here, and bring her to be yours. She comes from her family, as it was with Isaac's wife, way from over here as to a kindred of the flesh. Get thee out of the land of thy kindred, out of the flesh, I'll make a great nation of you. See? And so you are working with the woman that you might subject the woman. You are not that devilish culprit that's got to slap her and beat her with a belt and boss her around and be haughty and contrary and say, Now, you're mine. We're married. And we're going to do this and it's going to be my way. Daddy and Mama forget about it. You devil. Let's give the Lord a hand. You evil devil. Someday she'll spit in your face and walk off and leave you if she's got any sense. The Bible said if you perceive there is no understanding in a person go from them. You can't remarry until there is fornication. But you are not bound as a child of God to that devil image of that evil darkness and that power that harasses your mind, that torments you, that tries to kill you. The Bible said to love that woman as Christ loved the church, that's your body. That's your flesh. No man ever mistreated his flesh like that. Nobody is going to abuse his own flesh and try to beat his own brains out. It is a devil that blows his brains out even when he commits suicide or whatever he does. And it's the devil that leads you to suicide as a continuation against wisdom and understanding. So then, do you understand what I'm saying. So then you redeem the woman. You love the woman. You lead the woman. You win her admiration. You're her champion. You're the desire of her heart. She loved you. She left her parents to go after you so you're taking her from those of the in-law, and you're taking her to grace and love. And she's no more yours as in the law. She is yours by virtue of the fact that as Adam was the wife to the spirit to reproduce his image, yours to reproduce your image. And you are the glory of God. And you are made for the glory of God to manifest His life as light through you that people may see this as your face shines and the beauty of love and charity and the great wonderful love of the things of the next world. That is to say, the real world and not this vanity of corruption as to holiness and righteousness. This is what you are made for and she is made to produce your light that your image might come because she reproduces your glory. Well, anyway, this is what it's all about. The creature must come in. The creature must come in. A woman that is anything as to a harlot she is a garbage can. The Bible said she openeth herself to everything that cometh along. And God said, I put her away, as with a writing of divorcement and that by the law. I have used the law and I've put her away. And in the Old Testament the harlot was stoned to death. So that is under the law. So then, we know that we are the wonderful virgin of Christ and at the midnight cry we know what we are, we know what we're going to be, we know as to this light and we're going to bring this creature  We're going to bring this creature into the glorious liberties of the sons of God, which means through the diplomacy as to the transformating of the mind, as to translation of the spirit into the Kingdom, which is Christ in us, as in our spirit. As the transformation of the mind as a little at a time so the light will move this one negative to a positive out of the world of darkness to light and won't destroy it all at one time, going through the dark room, as to the dark ages, it shows it if we had time to get into it. Then into the new world of America here comes the image as to the church, as to symbolics. So we know that we are headed for Canaan. And we know that the transformation as to war, the diplomacy, the ultimatum will be the graduation and we will find ourself from a stage of graduation to graduate from and to and from and to, as to stages, which means graduation. And as we go on graduating into the wonderful heavenlies of God all of a sudden we will eradicate the doubtful mind and the shadows. We will win out and the clouds will be gone and the beautiful sunshine, as to the day of spring, will be there and the coldness will be all taken away, as to death. Well, let's stand together, sing a little chorus. These few little things as to say you really make it hard on me. No hunger, no thirst and you really make it difficult to get this across to the one or two little children here and there that really need something. And like I have said a number of times, when I was a little boy we use to when we were coming out of the woods, we'd have to go way down in the woods to get to the light wood. That is what we made out fires from, you know, the old pine stump. Root it up, work hard, bring it up, chop it up, split it up in splinters, take it home and this is what we built our fire in the big old fireplace with. Coming out of the woods a lot of times the horses, or the mules, they had a terrible strain on them. Usually a two horse wagon, coming out of some of them rough places way down in the woods, we had to travel so far even after we got out of the woods, as to the denseness of the forest. Coming along, just being a boy full of zip, you know, I would jump off of the wagon and then I'd get over to the wagon wheel and I'd jump on the spokes of the wheel and then I'd ride it up as the spokes come around and I'd jump in the wagon real quick. And we were always doing different things, you know, on the horses or the wagon. And then there were times when I would get into a position, just child like I would catch the wheel and I'd hold the wheel of the wagon and it would just drag me as I'd just slide along. And then, of course, I would wear out my shoes. And when I wore out my shoes Daddy wore me out. And I said this a lot of times. You make it hard on the horses and you'll wear out your soul and you'll go by the whipping post. See? So it's better not to drag your heels. It's better to help the horses and do what you can to create a real fire of the glory of God in the hearts of the people to where, as in the winter time of the sorrows of this life they can find a little warmth and enjoy themselves and have a covert from the storms of life. But, anyway, let's sing this little chorus together, can we? (Singing.) Sing it like this now. (Singing.) The altars are open. Let's sing this chorus. (Singing.) You know, when we sing songs like this we do it to stimulate your faith in God and to bring you to a place of worship. Songs are for a worship. You worship the Lord in spirit and in truth, and when you let your spirit go out there is something about song, as to a real worship. Not this yup, yup, yup, all this kind of thing, but a deep embedded love of a worship, of a fervency toward God, not as to a projection of the human form, but as to the life of God coming out of you, going out to Christ like a little rose that's been crushed, as to get the fragrance. And then there is nothing but the perfume. Or that is to say, the flowers of the earth as they lift up their little heads to God, as to the spring time and the beautiful sun and the radiance of that life comes down. And when this life comes down and the sun begins to draw, as to that moist, as to that water that has dropped down from heaven and the dew drops of God's love, almost as the tears that dropped from His eyes, as to the sorrow of that which you go through with. And it comes back up and it comes into that little old flower and as a fruit, coming like through a tree into this nature it forms an orange. It forms an apple. It forms a fig. It forms something delicious and very tasteful. With that moist, as to the nature of the elements that's been picked up by the surrounding roots to mix with that as coming, as the water through the tap roots to form the sap, as to then form according to the nature of this that is so luscious for you. And as the little flowers it's the same way except it's a different operation. One spirit, many operations. This is a fragrance that perfumes the earth to do away with the odors, or the acids and all of that that is contaminated from the corruption of the deterioration as the salt that purifies that which dies in the sea so that the waters can be purified, and sifting, or that is, filtering the waters, as through the earth and the streams to give us drink, and then taking the salt out through the filter putting it back into the ocean. As the water that comes down, drawn up by the sun up here, Solomon said, the cycle goes up and comes back down and goes up and as through the pores of the trees and the little flowers it returns after it has done it's work. Only God wooing on us and drawing on us all the time. He's drawing on us, pulling at us all the time to pull upon the nature and that watering and that wonderful sap of God. All the trees of God are full of sap and..(Begin tape two, side two.)...fruits of the spirit and to the little flowers and the petals and the beauty and the radiance and the glory of the colors, and as to light being manifested through the refraction of that smitten stone of the prism there at Calvary. And to see in the great rainbow, as to the covenant, that by the mist of the watering and the furbishing and refurbishing of the earth to know that He loves us and that He's forever with us. So in this the perfume comes out. Sometimes crushing the rose brings it. But anyway, it comes out and this is the beauty of it, that as long as it's within you then it is within a stock but when the little petals of faith, reaching in every way comes out, then from that little bud comes out this wonderful, wonderful nectar, or whatever, as into the little bud. And then comes the parasite, while the little honey bees, that has to do with the angelic force of God, they come together, this nectar from the fruit, from flowers, or whatever it might be, and as to the pollen. See? They come to get this and when they come to get this they take this and they make it into honey. They have that wonderful ability as angelic beings, ministering to them that are heirs of salvation, and for them, and they take this as that production of God to that wonderfulness of Christ, even as to angelic beings that live in other bodies that feed of off this, as to the right kind. And they store this away, taking it to the queen. And they store this away in the hive and then they let you take this. And usually they won't sting you if you don't harm them, you know, as to the land of milk and honey, as it is said. Then we enjoy the wonderfulness of Almighty God, the blessings of Almighty God as to this thing called honey, which is considered to be one of the most valuable things as to humanity, as to healing and nourishment. Well, anyway, when the others come, as to parasites, the wasp, and all of these hornets and different things that have the sting of death, or not as to the beautiful birds, but as to the old birds that come that are so ugly in their doing and so detrimental to man, like the starlings that is covering the earth by the millions as to show the increase of devils, as to the devouring of that which is coming forth. As I said, the angels desiring to look into this coming in human bodies, but they can't understand it. And those devils in those human bodies wants to understand this thing and they can't understand it so they intellectually search, one generation after another, trying to find this eternal life and they're never able to come to it. But God reveals it to us. Well, I said all of that to say this. When the sun draws the sap it then, the aroma then becomes interwoven with the breeze. It becomes interwoven with your environment. And as to you, as to a circumstantial environment, you know, it can be good or bad as to human being. But as to the environment of the atmosphere, or the hemisphere, as to these spheres, see? and then it's everywhere. Everywhere. It makes a sweet smelling savor come up as in the days of Noah when the ark landed, when the Lord so declared: I will never destroy the earth again for man's sake. I won't destroy it. I set my bow in the clouds that I'll never destroy it again. Though the wrath may come and the tornadoes may come, and though the cyclones may come, and the hurricanes may come, but I won't destroy the earth again. I'll have to do something, as He's doing right now in Tampa, St. Petersburg, different places, even where it's hitting right now, has in the last few days, killing people. I'll have to do something to keep them under control and stop this around the areas of lasciviousness, to keep it under control, as it was hitting in Hawaii when we said it would strike over there, while we were there. And as into the Islands where my Gracie was, or they live, as we said it would strike over there. So, this aroma, all of a sudden that inward you, that spiritual you, that that was inside of the flower, that wonderfulness that was hid inside of the flower, all of a sudden it becomes one with the breeze. And as Christ draws out of you that wonderful spirit of Christ to be made manifest in the mortal genes the angelic beings come. And when then this wonderful aroma of a sweet smell comes out of you, like women that perfume themselves, and then this comes forth, and as a woman she'll perfume herself so that when she walks by the man he will get the whiff and it helps her to subdue him. And it draws him to her, you know. And makes her as to be like a flower to him. Well, consequently it changes at times, but nevertheless, this is what it is. We're sweet to God. That is only a superficial thing, as to her love and as to her companion. And then she realizes, and he realizes after that all flesh is corruptible. And it's not like it appeared at all, neither is she so sweet as to what it appeared to be, as to get his love. See? But with us to God as the bride it's not that way. There is nothing corruptible. There will never be the ill odors of acids, or anything else as to corruption, as to defile, to do away with as to eradicate by means of acids, as to God having set rust against iron, or corruption against wood that nothing be left in remembrance, as he said, as death against life. See? That is, human life. So then, when we become His we are sweet. We are mellow. We are precious. We are glorious. There will never be anything in any ill manner, not one tiny spot or blemish. We are forever the most beautiful, the most wonderful, the most glorious thing that will ever stand as the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, that glorified body of that wonderful virgin, those with the oil in their light. So, when this aroma comes out it becomes one with the air, with the wind, with the sunshine, and then you are from everlasting to everlasting, as to the symbolics. Once your spirit comes out, as to Christ's Spirit, it's interwoven. Once it comes forth, as to be made manifest in your mortal genes and comes forth as to this light that radiates as it did from Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration, from Stephen, from Moses' face when he put a veil over it, then that means that once that comes forth it is interwoven with the light and you are no longer a natural body, you are changed into to a spiritual body. And as Jesus went away then you become one with that which is from everlasting to everlasting. And you have become the glorious wonderful Christ, as to be made a quickening spirit. No longer in the form of the Adam of corruption as unto death, the old beast leaving that second realm going back into that third heaven, that wonderful heaven as to which you were exposed by the illumination. Now the inner man is interwoven and born of that wonderful eternal light. Riches and power and glory and youth and splendor that is so lovely, even that that you experience in your youth. Let's sing another little chorus together. We're going to let you go in just a little bit. (Singing.) Can you sing that chorus one more time? (Singing.) Let's just lift our hand together and sing this little chorus. (Singing.) Once again. (Singing.) One more time let us sing it together. (Singing.) I'm going to ask Brother John Jameson to come and dismiss us, if he will. (Singing.) You know, my heart is enlarged to you that you should know the wonderful mysteries of God for the one that is the bride will know the mysteries of God. Paul the great revelator, the unveiled, as to the scales from the eyes, went to get the bride and Christ is in the world today going after the bride through Paul, as to the church ages, as the churches he established and through the human form of ministry today as the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And the hour has come, as for the bride, and the time has come and now is the time to present yourself, because you are the bride and you've been the bride from the foreknowledge of the world, as to the body that had that joy. And now you're coming into this wonderful joy to be made manifest in your body. The Bible said, I will see you again. Jesus said, I will see you again and I will give you joy and this joy no man shall take from you. Joy and unspeakable and full of glory. Not a one of you can be lost. Jesus said, Father, I've not lost a one. There is no dismembering. Though in the world there is a dismembering and the cutting off of the arms and the legs, as to these physicians of today that butcher the body of humanity for money, and because of corruption a lot of times they have to sever, but it's not so with you. Not one member of his body shall be lost. Not one member all will be intact. And ye are the members of His body in particular. So while you have the opportunity, like the little song. We sing that song, I think I'll testify. I think I'll praise the Lord just while I have a chance. Just while I have a chance for I may not have this chance anymore. I may not have this chance any more. Now is the time to come forth. Now is the time to come out of the shadows. Now is the time to show yourself because you belong to Him. You are His body. You have always been that wonderful body of life and Jesus said, I am the Prince of Life. I come to temple, or tabernacle within you that you may have life, all things that pertain unto life. Filled up, abundantly, abundantly and over flowing. Once again we'll sing this chorus as John comes. (Singing.)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord