Now The Time Is At Hand

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Bringing this because the the print is supposed to be a little bigger in this, which that's fine. Ah, I certainly like that. But I don't know there's just a the pages are a little different as to the paper work and this one I can just flip it around like that. You can't do that other one that way. I look and I look and I pull and then find two pages together and whatever. But anyway it's wonderful wonderful opportunity to be in the house of the Lord and. If we would come in to the gates of God with thanksgiving. And if we would enter into God's gates into His courts with praise. Really genuinely not, you know come in to the door and say well Hallelujah Glory to God. I don't mean that. But I mean you been worshiping the Lord you've been loving the Lord. You've got you're in a state of mind and a state of spirit, to where you are you're loving the Lord. Serving the Lord is Joy. When a person don't have the joy of Christ there not serving the Lord. Someone would say well I I love the Lord but I tell you what I'm just you know. The devils beating my brains out and I just can't hardly go and I just you know. That's not serving the Lord. Somebody has got something mixed up somewhere. You you've got a different God outside of what I've got. Ah, serving the Lord is Joy. It is Joy. What brings that joy? The victory that overcometh the world even your faith. You're faith is a victory that overcometh the world and because of this faith then you know that you are a born overcomer and there is joy unspeakable. You can't even express it in words it's unspeakable and it's filled with glory on the inside of your heart. And ah, you say well now Brother Pike what about all these problems all these trials and these conflicts. Well you're going to have those. You're body hasn't been changed. And you're on the enemy's territory as to the body and ah he's the god of this world and he's going to beat on you and the hail storms is going to come against your little house and the winds is going to blow. But were founded on a rock. And that rock is faith in God's word. And it isn't going to shake our house nor our foundation. We just weather the storm,we close the door, we pull down the windows, and ah we just sit back real tight and comfortable till the storm passes over as we sing the song. And ah, when the clouds come we don't get all upset and all bent out of shape as the world says you know and get fearful. The Bible said let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid. We just confident our heart in God the Word the Faith. Darkness comes and we know that daylights coming the sun hasn't gone out. The sun light is still up there. That great day star is still there it's just on the other side of the hill as we say. And ah, when we get on the enemy's territory as to too much in the natural the suns just on the other side of the hill. But when old Brother Joshua crossed over that Jordan then that sun shined and shined and shined. And ah he won the battle. The sun didn't go down. And that's what you need to do. You need to cross over that old intellectual reasoning of yours. The sky won't be full of doubtful shadows all the time. Paul said don't be of a doubtful mind. Just hold on when the shadows up there the sunshine is still right there behind the clouds and everything is going to be all right. That sun will break through the shadows will disopate and you'll find out Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever. He's the same to a thousand generations. He said peace on earth and good will toward man. That was once and for all eternally to never change that for it to never change and whether there be clouds in the sky or whether there be no clouds in the sky it's still the great wonderful word and inspiration of life peace be unto you Jesus said. All the paths of God are peace. We are the children of peace. We make peace. And though the world will never have peace they can do all that they want to at their conference tables but they'll never have peace. Because the Bible said there is no peace to the wicked. As a matter of fact that just that brings back to mind ah I just wrote to Mr Bush last night ah. I guess Brother Taylor, Sister Linda will probably get it off in the mail today. I asked Sister Betty to or maybe monday morning. But ah, just wrote him a letter in acknowledgement of the letter that He and Barbara wrote me and Betty concerning our anniversary. And ah, wishing us a happy anniversary. And ah, I ah,I know He's working for peace I know other great leaders are working for peace, they want peace you want peace we all want peace. Ah, perhaps I got a little bit strong the other night when I said something about the political side of things and. Ah, I expressed my views real clearly. I'm neither republican nor democrat. Ah, you know they mean nothing to me independent ticket means nothing to me. I am a christian I have one king that's Jesus Christ. I have one government that is the word of God. I have one desire and that's to do always the things that please my heavenly father as Jesus did. But God has raised up men of integrity and we do have to have them in this world as to the molecular structure of life and we have to stand with them and do what ever we can. There are great statesmen, there are real genuine statesmen. George Washington was one of them and Abe Lincoln was another one of them. And there's been great men all down through life. Roosevelt was a great man. All of them have things that are lacking and they are shortcoming in their life. And ah, I don't all together agree with Mr. Bush and some things that he did. But yet there's many things that I would not ordinarily agee with him on. When I search out I find out it was the hand of God as to at the time and seasons or the way points of life that this had to take place. So I offer my support as much as I can and as to prayer because the prophets of old ah, they controlled the nations through the great leaders as to the king's and whatever and the king's greatly feared them and reverenced to what they said because of they knew that they had the word of God. And as Daniel said, and my Wife was reading it even the, again this morning. I refresh my mind on it alot of times. It is the Lord that raises up one and puts down another or kings are raised up by God and the Bible said sometimes He raises up the basor sort to the people because they wont do right. But He rules in the affairs of man and He has His way in all things. So we every now and then to a president or a congressman or whatever we get in a word of God to them to help frame their mind and and to form their mind and bend their minds toward Christ and the Glory's of God. And then when they receive their victory's after being told of a victory ah, as seen by Christ then they praise and Glorify God and the next time something comes around their looking for that same support when their in a shaky condition. And I perceive that that's why Mr. Bush wrote us like he did concerning the thing recently. And ah, I I feel like one of the things he would of liked for me to have done was to invited him down. Ah, whereas right their I get a real hangup. He was ah he was in this area and all around in this area and ah, as far as I can tell that was probably one of the things he would liked for us to have done. We have become friends through sending him the flag and through ah him acknowledging it as well as Mr. Reagan. But when you do that you find yourself in a precarious situation and ah I'm for supporting wisdom and strength and courage and that that God raises up. I'm for that. But I'm not for getting entangled and conforming to the natural political side of life. I'm not for that. And when you get to involved with things that's what you do. That's why I withdrew from denominations. When denominations, there where some big operations that wanted to support my ministry and it would have been fabulous but I withdrew from it I wouldn't do it because I saw points of compromising and ah, I don't want to be in that kind of position at all or be entangled with anything of life. So I withdraw from it I just readily withdraw when great opportunity's as to those things have opened up to me on such a level that you'd be shocked to know about. But ah, I withdrew. Jesus did the same thing because if were going to be Holy and Godly and pure then ah we've got to stay with a little flock. I like what ah, Lee said as far as I know according to my Grandmother Lee he was one of our for fathers that led the south in battle. And ah, I like what he said when Mr. Lincoln saw such courage in him that he offered to make him a commanding general of a great part of his army and he refused. Ah, having respect for Lincoln apparently he would have accepted but he refused he said because it's on the other side of the border we say as to what has been our enemy and I wont forsake my brethern. And he stood by his brethern, and he was such a gentleman that they wouldn't even take his sword from him. Whereas as you know according to the south the north never have won the war as to strength because even their officers it was acknowledged among them that they where no mach for southern fighters. But they starved them out which was the hand of the Lord because Mr. Lincoln was raised up of the Lord and led of the Lord to break the thing of slavery and the south being in ignorance to it in that they were brought over on ships and sold in slavery and it was back all the way for many years even into egypt as to time of slavery. Even among the Jews they were people in slavery and it was a common thing among people, and ah, God did not want a a massacre and a slaughter so He worked it that they were starved out so that Lincoln could make his goal for the things of the Lord. Both of them working for a great goal, each one fought for what he believed was right and ah as to an integrity. But I thought it was wonderful as to the integrity of Lee in this particular instance because ah, ah, he had some real good characteristics about him. Some that I didn't know that I've just heard of recently that others do know about. And ah, I ah, I admire that in people I admire that in men like Bush. I see a great integrity with Bush. And ah, as I said to some of the Brethren the other day I I'm kind of up front with what I have to say. I don't, I can't see using polished ethics and compromising to gain position. I'm after position with God. John was just out of the woods. An ax in his hand to cut down the tree. And really no reputation at all. But the thing is it was said there was none greater, there was none greater than John. None greater. And he was seeking favoritism with God. So I'm seeking favoritism with God and I I like to support that which is right and when I see. The Bible said woe unto that man that calls darkness light and light darkness. I'd love to, I'd love to segregate between the two and I love to say that's darkness and this is light. And ah, that way there's no mix up. And if you don't do that then you'll never have a real mind of stability or wisdom or understanding to help anybody including yourself. You'll always be muddled up in your mind. But when you put good on one side and bad on another side and you don't try to enter mingle those things then you come to a great wonderful mind of understanding. And like the song that we wrote this morning ah, I say we wrote God gives us songs (Apples of Gold). Solomon said and words fitly spoken they are like apples of gold and pictures of silver. And he was very careful in all of his parabolic speech and the things that he said his words were so well placed that they brought out such great understanding and wisdom. Even till to them today to them that read them. And I like to hear men say good things I I don't cater to the fact that Mr. Bush called Clinton a bozo and I don't cater to the fact that Mr. Clinton called him a political clown. And I guess he was fighting back. I think Bozo is a clown I'm not acquainted with Bozo but I think that's what he meant. That sense he called him a clown he was clowning to. But I I do I do feel that people should be congen congenial and Paul said bear with with me in my folly a little bit. Sometimes we say things that seems off color and really it's not. Sometimes were rude in speech but not in knowledge. And ah, like Jesus said one time he said go tell that fox. Then He looked at the people and said generation of vipers. And ah, He said fools and blinds, whited supulcre full of dead men's bones. He said a lot of things that seem off color but in all reality it was exactly the truth. So I support these people and I try to keep my distance otherwise not to get to involved with them. Ah, because I don't want a I don't want to ah I don't want to do that. Ah we have opportunity and have had opportunity to be interwoven with the world in the highest places of life. Great opportunity. But we backed off from it and ah we've tried to condensed of men of low estate and esteem others better than ourself. To look on the things of another, to seek the welfare of another. To be like Jesus was when he washed the feet leaving an example. Not minding high things. The latter days the Bible said and people would be high minded. And they are, they want to be the president they want to be the great leaders they want to be ah millionaires they want education they want to be lord over the heritage and ah and all these kind of things. I don't have any desire for that because it's all foolishness. A man was telling me yesterday. Said just before a man deceased that your well acquainted with said he just had told him said you know there's one thing about it wherever I go I always wind up at the head. And ah it wasn't long before he was gone. Now I know a very capable fellow a fellow that ah had a lot of ability but as the old saying goes it's not good for your ability to go to your head, it's better to keep your ability in your heart. As it has been said in the past that dad is the head but their mother is the heart. And there's a lot to that. That is to say if the Lord Jesus Christ is the head and were in the feminine gender let us keep it in the heart. The Bible said God's eye's are throughout the earth beholding the good and the evil looking for the upright in heart not in the head. Had a little saying I have to get my head straightened out. Just before a great calamity befell a young man he made that statement. I informed them that they had to get their heart straightened out. This is not a brain washing thing this is a heart washing thing. Well anyway we could go on and go on and just exhorting you and talking to you a little bit. Ah, I wanted to I still want to get in to some things that I haven't been able to touch base with you on and ah. I don't really know I don't really know what to do about it. These things I want a say and I want a do and I can't a I can't press them on you. I learned that at an early age though I really tried at times. The Lord informed me that that was foolishness that I never could do that even though my heart was filled and running over with those wonderful things. That I could ah I could not do that that that wouldn't work that it has to be God speaking to you and if God doesn't speak to you then there want be anything concerning you. And ah that's why I tell you when you come in here to come in here with your heart open come in here with a real melody in your heart making melody to Christ and come in here with the love of God praising the Lord, come in here to be a strength to me. Help to strengthen me and don't be one that delites and take away from the things of God but one that adds to the things of God. I say again as the great man Peter Marshall he made the statement, a lot of great men make great statements and they live on in memory. Ah, a lot of great statements in the Bible. But I remember Peter Marshall the great man making the statement let me be part of the answer and not part of the problem. Great statements like God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Great statements that live on and on. In Mark I I referred to this in the last service and I didn't get to say anything about it, and I'm wondering this morning I'm kinda tarrying a little bit because I'm wondering this morning if I'm going to get to say anything about it. I felt a a good spirit a good attitude, but I'm still searching to see if we find a hunger because these things can only come if you are hungering. I read from you or read to you or brought to you Mark 1 and 15. And ah, I told you that this was the thing that ah we proficied walking down the streets of Dolorosa when Jerry and I and some of those where in the Holy land. And this was the thing the spirit spoke. I did not know what I was going to speak no more than I know what I'm going to speak up here. But this is what He spoke. And I I proficied this and then on the last service I referred back to it. Jesus said here said and saying the time is fulfilled and kingdom of God is at hand. Repent ye and believe the gospel. So the thing that I had reference to the other day. I was trying to make a point and I had reference to something to try to highlight that particular thing. People if you don't pen point something or if you don't bring it down to just one or two little sayings they can't retain it in their mind. It get's lost in the shuffle or they get lost in the shuffle. So I was highlighting the time is at hand. The time is at hand. Because again John as to the mouth of two witnesses in the book of revelation the first chapter the third verse. The Bible says in this chapter that the time is at hand the time is at hand. So I said that kinda slowly where you can think about that and that can soak in. Repent and believe ye the gospel as I told the Jews they are the prophetical utterance. Then the time is at hand. Now someone would say well what do you mean by that Brother Pike. I mean that the time is at hand. Who are we? Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. And that's hard for us to get ahold of. That's hard for us to grasp. We say well things remain the same even as when our fathers fell asleep it's the same today there's no change in it. But folks there is such a tremendous change that it's unbelievable. And yet your not aware of it because you came in the time of the change, and you have rolled along with the change of time and through the changing and transitions of the time you have been part of it. So you're not aware of it. But somebody that's back here that's been back here a little farther than you have and then they entered in to the era of your time and life. They see such a change until their almost shocked. Not only as to what we wrote about the changing events of transology but also as to a spiritual thing that has been such a tremendous change in the church. Such a tremendous change that people aren't at all in their mode of worship like they was when I was a child. And the fidelity toward Christ isn't there any more. It is a formality, it is a ritualistic. It is something that people do as like a spontaneous sort of a thing out of will worship. It's not God worship at all. It's will worship. It is like the old tree of knowledge. Satan has worked so hard to get people into a rut of intellectual thinking and intellectual doings. Just going around and around you know in the old wilderness wondering. And everything is intellectual everything that we do is intellectual. Even to try and to worship God. We try to worship God out of our head. We try to pray out of our head. We try to praise God out of our head, and their is really no heart felt salvation to it at all. And a results of that there's no faith. Because faith cometh by the hearing of the word as to believing with the heart. And because the heart is all out of condition we can't get it to trust in God. Because we have an experience. You know it's kind a like a mother, she fixes rather than a real meal for her family, a TV dinner. Which don't it don't it's good, it's tasty, it's pretty, it's decorated, but when it comes to ah sticking to the ribs as they used say and really satisfying hunger or giving you any strength or giving you any health, it's no good at all. So that's the way people are you know all intellectual. There's no fervency of prayer, there's no affection from them toward God as to an effectual fervent prayer. No diligence toward God. Ah, and as a results of that they don't get any results out of their prayers. And we don't see the things in the church that we need to see in the church. It's not like it should be. Everything is out of course. The Bible said enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. And know how to conduct yourself and behave yourself in the house of the living God which is the ground and the pillar of the truth. Come in and don't sit in the seat of the scornfull and don't stand in the way of sinners. But let your delight be in the laws of the Lord and meditate in the laws of the Lord day and night. Because this is the way they used to worship. Ask for the old paths and walk there in and you'll find rest and peace to your soul. So this is what I'm talking about. This is God's complaint. The Bible said and this is the judgement that's upon the world. And this is the condemnation of the world. That light has come into the world. Understanding of righteousness that is has come into the world. The right way of serving God in spirit and in truth has come into the world. And men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. Their deeds are evil and so then they don't want to get away from God as to a religious way of life. They don't want to get away from that because man has an inclination toward God and there's something in here that troubles him if he don't feel a spiritual security. And ah, devils can't relate to that light and they've got into the human body and because of that the only way that the devils can get this thing from God as to life. In that their cut off from the darkness. They have to get into the human body. And when they get into the human body the judgements of God will not be upon them because there's blood on the seat of atonement as to the mercy seat as to the rain on the just and the unjust. There is grace up there upon the human body because the human body is undeveloped as to the knowledge and skill of God. And where theirs no knowledge of sin, sin is not imputed. And so then they have this space of grace. This time of grace which they turn into lasciviousness. But the thing is they do have this time of grace and the devil through grace has gotten into the human body. The serpent has climbed up into the upper lentil just like the old underworld has gotten up into the upper lentil of our upper echelon of today. See showing given us a type. It's not real government as was instigated by our four fathers as to great men like of the patriarchs of old. But it's really a thing of the underworld of controlling the balance and all of this other thing to bring in the discrepancies and to put in who ever they want to. Like the alumni. So in this we know that there is problems through all of the world. Especially within man's heart. Because satan is inside of him. And satan is sapping his life like a leach. And satan is gragually taking his health. All of the sicknesses come from this. All of the depletion of life, all the oppression of mind. All of the problems that we cope with. All of the poverty. All of the starvation and all of these things around the world as to famines and and a turbulence of weather. Whatever it might be. The killing and and racial conflicts all of this comes from one thing. And that is because you are being depleted of the presence of God and the Spirit of God in that Jesus is the abundance of life. He is a quickening Spirit that lives in your heart. And you was made in His image. And it was the elumination of God as to the image of Christ that Adam and Eve was in when they had the abundance of life. Which they have today. As to America the new world especially shows this. This elumination as to grace upon the people, everybody. See and satan is taken full advantage because he can get into that human body and he can draw and drink in that thing that comes from God as to mercy. And he can only do that because man has a day of grace and mercy and during that period of time as the ah dispensational grace as we say. He lives in that body and he, he eats, he drinks, he dances, he frolics, he does everything and your life is like having a big old tape worm on the inside. Ah little ones used to get tape worms in them. And that thing that little one can eat and eat and eat and eat and couldn't drink, I mean couldn't find any weight you know, couldn't gain any weight. ( Turn tape over) some relaxation and the mother would be so disturbed because the little one seems to be dying. See and satan is like a tape worm on the inside he's on the inside. Or like the worm they used to call the fire worm. He would get into your body and you couldn't pull him out. If you did he would burst and then he would, it would kill you. And they had to take and ah wrap, get a little bit of him out and wrap it around something and gradually every day just turn that a little bit to work him out of there to save the life. See and God is gradually working him out of you through the wonderful word of God and the old tape worm that's in there, he is getting everything and you don't get any help. You don't get any strength. You don't get any peace. There's no tranquility of life because he is leaching. And he's getting all of the wonderful things that God has for you. And ah he's got you so convinced till you don't know. He is so interwoven with you that is in the case of Peter when Peter said nay Lord be it far from the. Where not going to let anybody hurt you. Jesus realized it was the devil. He said you savor the things that be of the flesh, get behind me satan. See but it was so closely knitted that Peter didn't know. And the Bible said in the latter times it will be such a close knitted thing as to the rain on the just and the unjust that you want be able to tell the difference. Unless you are elect. And the elect will know that those are known by their doings as to the world as well as the spiritual and that they are not doing the will of God. And they discern this as to by the word. They discern these things that would be discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. And discerning this then they separate themselves and they come out from the world and they are a separate people. They want touch the unclean things. Because the Bible said if you'll regard iniquity in your heart God will not hear you. But if you'll come out and touch not the unclean things, I'll receive you saith the Lord. And I will give you the spirit of abundance of life. I'll give you the abundance of living. Christ said I am the prince of life. I am come that you may have that restoration from which Adam fell, that image. I want you to have this abundance of life and living. And I'm coming to set up my kingdom of life on the inside of you. The kingdom of Heaven on the inside of you. So you can rejoice forevermore and you can dwell in Heaven. Speaking of the inner man. And though the outer man perish yet the inner man's renewed day by day. And in this God let them know that the Kingdom of God was at hand when calvary came. And I'm come that this light might be filled up and over flowing. And I have destroyed the man of perdition. The image, the bastard child, this outer form. This thing that we try to educate and this thing that we try to pet as we say, and tolerate. It's the devil. We don't need to tolerate him. We don't need to pet him. We don't need to admire. We don't need to give place to him, no not for a minute. Not even one thought to eat and drink and fill the belly, because he's on his belly. He's the old serpent it's a generation of vipors. And he's on his belly and all of his labor is for his belly and for his mouth because his belly craves it of him. And he wants to be beautiful as in a woman. He wants to be hansom in a man. He wants his muscles rolling. He wants everything that pertains to the flesh. Get behind me satan though savorest the things that be of the flesh. That is your looking Peter at my physical being and this is the thing that caused all the trouble. I've come here in the form of a servent. I'm to be made sin the image of sin and that thing that let the devil in even the first man Adam. And I'm going to calvary, and ah as to the Christ speaking I'm going to smite this thing, I'm going to bruise the head of it. I'm going to bruise the hands and I'm going to plow the back like a field I'm going to mutilate this thing until no man's countenance has ever been marred or ever will be marred the way I'm going to mar this one. And I'm going to show you what the great God of the Spirit thinks to the defilement of the first man Adam, and all of them that follow him. In Adam all die. And I'm going to display the grace and mercy of God to a coming generation. As to one that's going to be the seed of God as to the restoration of that Shekinah that was lost. Even my image. And this time as Christ I'm going into the heart of man and into the spirit of man, and I'm going to become interwoven with that man. And what ever measure that man's spirit will allow to come in as to Christ. Which is the Kingdom of God as to the fullness of all things then I'm going to make myself at home in His heart. And we're going to be one as to what ever member He can be. Being baptized into my body by one spirit, or that is to say as the spirit of Christ as the life of the God body even Jesus Christ. I'm going to join this member to my body and this member to my body by the baptizm of the spirit just like your spirit joins your members to your body or your life joins your members to your body. Until I bring it all to one headship even the Lord Jesus Christ which is the head of the church. Paul said I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is now. Non other name given among men where by we must be saved except the name of Jesus Christ. And ah, in this he entered into the heart of man and said this is the beginning of the creation of God. Not Adam, but this. This Jesus. This resurrected one delivered for out offenses raised again for our justification. Sown in weakness raised in power. Put down as a terrestrial brought up as a celestial. Down as a corruptible and now and incorruptible. And ah, now this is you. I am your head and this is the beginning of the creation of Jesus or of God. And this is now the body and bone and flesh, members in particular of this great wonderful God body for the great wonderful God world. And now I put enmity between you and the serpent seed. And in this enmity, it was the smiting of the head as Christ took the Jesus body that was made in the image of the servant as to the fallen one Adam. And smote his head right there, the old serpent. And he said and I saw Lucifer as Satan fall from heaven as lightning because in that body Paul said that wretched man that no good body, that bastard child image, that degraded one that bonds child that's in bondage to the beggarly elements of the world by the human senses. Being made relative to it as to having to have this for survival he's dependent upon his belly and his mouth. So he's subject to the vanity. Whereas having escaped the pollution of the world Paul said, through the wonderful knowledge of the Lord Jesus by faith in Christ as to His finished works. Then we believe with our heart unto the works of Christ Jesus, in Him we are complete in Him as to what God has made us to be in Him as to be revealed in the seasons to come. Christ's mind on the inside transformating my mind from this translated condition of my spirit into His spirit. Now transforming my mind, that is completely transforming my mind from Glory to Glory revealing to me as to the positive a little bit at a time, bringing me out of the negitive and not just destroying me as one that would flip a light on and ruin a negitive. They have to process it through what they call the spirits and then they take it through all of this as the little red light is there in the dark time. Whereas in this world your in the dark room and all of the world of total darkness ye are the light of the world and the little red light is the blood application. And your passing through this and your going through the changes as to the spirit. And your going past these things as to both good and bad in the spirit. And then you come out as a positive and that God bringing this light as to the day star forth in your heart, it comes with a gradguality so your gradguated. See and moving on toward your diplomacy of the manifestation of the Christ life which came into your spirit becoming inter woven transforming your mind from glory to glory brings it to a full change as an ultimatum to the transfiguration of your body, which is Christ Jesus appeared in Glory. Which was the body of the church from the manger into glory. That's where were going. Not by the way of the grave. For Paul said there's a mystery, Ye shall not sleep. There's no need for you to. You can't die when your when your born again. Your spirit is already become the Son of God and you are already son's of God. You've already passed from death unto life. There's no way that you can die. And there's no need for the bodily structure to die, because there is no sin to the body. Jesus has taken away all the sins of the body by putting the nature, the defiled nature as to the infiltration of Satan. Putting it out and putting it into the fire, eradicating it. And you are as the garment tried in the fire. As to the body the rainment which is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ that passed through those chambers so that you would not have to go through them. And now then your body as the feminine part is divorced, Paul said, from the nature of the wicked one which was Christ Jesus the infiltration of the knowledge of the tree of knowledge. To carnality unto death. And now you are divorced from him by the body of Jesus, that that was smitten and being made sin. Then the life of Christ Jesus picking up your body after it was dead by his body. Him being made sin that you might be made the righteousness of God through the resurrected Christ by that which he did to bring justification. Having risen from the dead it was a proof that were now justified as a human being. Because if He escaped death He is the first Brother among many Brethern that was able of Him own self to bring forth life as to the body once again. Which means as to one man's sin all die one man righteousness, obedience unto life all live. And now we are alive forever more even as we where dead, now we are alive from the dead and we are the body and bone of His flesh. Old things have passed away, all things become new. And now we are a new creature in Christ. We are they that dwell in heaven and all of them that came as far as calvary that was under the law they where cut off. Even the jews showing that as to the bodily part. While we are the spiritual Christ and the jew going on. Then seeing, parden me, then seeing in part. And they could not, they could not ah, see this wonderful thing. So we being the one that are the children of the day. We see as to the unveiling they are the children of the night as to the veil still over their eyes. We are the children of the resurrection, and to the revelation which is today. So we've held our post of duty in the day. We are as to the twelve tribes of the apostolic production or reproduction of the posterity of God. And the Bible said who shall declare his posterity. He was cut off so then we declare his posterity. And here we are as those that are derivative from the twelve spiritual jews. Even though we're not natural jews outwardly there were spiritual jews inwardly. And though Jesus was a natural jew to the extent that He was born of the jews and yet not of the jew blood. Not of the blood of humanity, all people being of the same blood regardless to color nation whatever. But anyway Jesus being of the jews there they where and there they'll be in the millenium sitting upon the throne to rule for a thousand years. When I rule upon my throne ye shall also rule upon twelve thrones beside me and that judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And in the book of revelation you read. Jesus told them this, and in the book of Revelation you read that I saw thrones John said and they that sat upon them, even as to the twenty four elders. And rule and power was given unto them. Whereas the Bible said God has made us Kings and priest unto our God that we should be caught up immediately and at new birth to the throne. Dwelling in heaven and ruling with a rod of iron breaking the nations as one would break pottery. So I know then and you know that all of these things happening as to the signs of the time would come right down to the end of the world. That's why I spoke of Mr. Bush this morning. I could have elaborated a lot more on it but taking up my time with that it would have taken away my time of exhortation this morning. As to try to help perfect your faith in God by making known to you these wonderful things of the mind of Christ. Though you know these things, Peter said, as long as I'm in this tabernacle I still feel that I should stir up your pure mind which is the mind of Christ. Your mind in Christ in these things and bringing back by the way of remembrance. So then we know that we are already children of God and because we're children then are we partakers of the benefit. We know already that we are Son's of God. Not as to become Son's of God, but we are already son's of God. For John said now beloved ye are the Son's of God. It does not yet appear as to your bodily structure what ye shall be like as to sight. But we do know that when He appears we shall be like Him as to the bodily structure as to the transfiguring of this body. Because everyone that has Christ that hope of Glory He alone being made er to the Glory, that's your hope of Glory. If you have this hope of Glory within you at the coming of the Lord you'll be changed into His likeness if you have not His spirit you're not of His. So Christ in you He's working this wonderful thing out. You've already passed from death unto life you're not going to die. All of our lives where subject to bondage because of fear of death. But now beloved friend why should we as a people, why should we fear death when death hath no power over us. Does death have power over me? Of course it does not. Do I have power over death? Of course I do. See and this was also why that men like Peter raised Dorcas from the dead. It was also why Jesus raised from the dead as to Lazarus, and then said to you and I greater things then these shall ye do because I go to the Father. Or that is I'm coming back, I go away but I'll come back and I'm, the world isn't going to see me but I'm going to live in you and you're joy nobody will take from you, no man will ever take from you. This will be an eternal joy. The joy of the Lord is out strength. And I will, I will live in you, and I will walk in you, and I will talk in you, and I will do greater things through your life. Greater thing's than these things that are being done now. And I not only will do them as to for a few days in that I'm limited in this body in that I have to go to calvary. And as Peter said, put off this body, this tabernacle. For if I don't go away as to put it off then as to the Christ on the inside He cannot come and tabernacle in your body or dwell in you to make you the members of that righteous body of God's favoritism. Of health, happiness, prosperity, whatever. See so I've got to come back. And when I come back then I'll do greater and more mightier things acording to the measure that you will allow me to be in your life. For Paul said, God is able to do abundantly above all that we're able to ask or think. Even think according to this that worketh with in us. So higher above our thinking and understanding is the knowledge of God. Higher than the heavens is the earth. We can not even begin to imagine how powerful we are, as Son's of God walking. We think about superman and all these other kind of things and, and ah we admire that. Ah, Sister Linda had a dream one time ah, seeing ah, us in that way. And ah, we think about that and that's great, that's wonderful. And those little comic strips there like the little stories that we spoke about Cinderella, Snow White and the seven dwarfs. They are just little things that that pictorially strikes the mind to, to kind of get the child in line to receive the wonderfulness of God when He comes on down to these things. Superman is really nothing even though to us as a little child he's fantastic. He's from another world, he just you can't kill him and all these kind of things. And of course you know what I said to, not to long ago about him ah, they will kill him you know. But this superman of God all of those figments of imaginations they come from God's supermen, God's superman. You remember when superman was on the planet cryptim that he was no more than anybody else. All of them were suppermen. But in the earthly realms it was different. You know as in that world up there we are angels. And ah, though we can't tell it as to looking at one another, we know each other after the flesh. But when you come into the spirit and you know each other after the spirit we are in heaven and we're that great world. And we are the super ones for angels are more powerful then men. Greater in power and might. So we're much greater through this Christ that's over us, even the angels reverence us. See as to which angel did He ever say sit here on my right hand until I make thy enemies thy footstool. But He has said unto us, or said unto Jesus, or said unto the body of Christ as to the Son. Son sit here on my right hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool. And said let the angels bow down to the, and let the angels honor the. And this great wonderful thing that He hath given us. See as to catch us up to the throne. We dwell in heaven. We've already passed from death unto life because we're dealing with the inner man, the spiritual man. This body, it is sinless. It does nothing. There's nothing that the body does as to sin. The Bible said every sin is without the body saving the sin of fornication, and he that sins the sin of fornication sinneth against his body. Which makes it evident that it's also without the body. So all sin's is without the body. And this is why that God can impute unto you for righteousness faith. As to what the inner man is and what the inner man does, as to believing in what God wrought in the spirit for us by the atonement of the body of the Lord Jesus smiting the middle wall of partition, the old enemy as to the animal part of this taking it out of the way that beast image. Now that it is taken out of the way there's nothing against us because all of the impurities are burnt out in that the nature's gone and the body never did do anything to start with, because all sin's are without the body. See and we can't sin in our spirit because we've been translated into the spirit of Christ or the kingdom of God and therefore we cannot sin in our spirit so that makes us sinless. He that is born of God cannot sin. Already are we there, son of God or the Son's of God. And ah, in that we are we've already passed from death unto life, shall never come into condemnation. For there is therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. And you can't walk after the flesh because you're not in the flesh. For I have chosen you out of the flesh, I've hid you with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring of all things, which is the millenium. Then I'm bringing back all the lost species. That is to do away with ah, death and sorrow and heartaches. So then men now. Men back then, people, they have the power to raise the dead. They are living. They are alive from the dead. Though they were dead in trespasses and sin. Now as the body of the Lord Jesus they are alive forever more and they dwell in the presence of the Father. And Jesus said Father restore unto me the joys I had with the before the world ever was. Before the world ever was. Job where was you when the morning stars sang together and Son's of God leaped for joy. See Jesus said you're not of this world if I'm not of this world. You're not of this world. If you was of the world the world would love you. But the world hates you even as they hated me. And He said you're not of the world. He said these others, you're of the dust. From the dust though art, on the belly you are because God put you back in the dust. So we are caught up into heaven. We've came from heaven we go back to heaven. We pass through the old cocoon but as the butterfly we're air born we're heavenly born now and we are in the presence of God. Caught up the Bible said to be with Christ in the air like the little butterfly. So shall we ever be with the Lord. And ah, that means that we don't observe the flesh, we are quickening spirits. And we're the body of the Lord Jesus, we're God's superman. We are people that are God's that cannot die. And we have the ability to say what we will and that's the way it is. You know a King, a great mighty King or a God, he can say what he will as it was said through Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar, thou art a great king even as in this vision, thou art the head of gold of this great image. And it has been Nebuchadnezzar that whatever you say that that's the way it is. You keep alive whom you will and you destroy whom you will. And you tree has grown so great and so mighty as it was said to this great leader. That it has reached up to Heaven. And your branches has gone out to the ends of the earth and the branches are filled with fruit and all of the earth feeds from the, and from these things. And under the branches of your tree the beast come to find shadow from the heat of the day. And ah, he was a mighty mighty great mighty king. But folks we excel that. We excel that. It was said as to those kings as to the greatness as to Moses, as to the greatness. But it was said as to in the days of Paul through the revelation. Who is the greater the house or he that occupies the house. Is not he that dwelleth in the house greater than the house that he hath built. Isn't he the one that has built the house. Wasn't Moses a house. Wasn't all of that back under the law that died in the faith. That is to say in Abraham's bosom, as to the faith. Didn't they die in the faith of Abraham, and could never come into this. Wasn't they the house. And now here is Christ himself greater than John, greater than those because this is the one that occupies the house. And all of this was as to a natural side of life, a natural structure, natural wealth, natural body's, natural exuberance. Ah, and only the spirit moving through them at sundry times, and these things as to diverse places. Ah, we had the word of the Lord prophesying, predicting, foretelling of the coming of the Lord Jesus. And this is why Jesus rebuked the jews saying search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life, but they are these that testify of me. Or these are they that testify of me. And I say it both ways that you might understand it. Where not talking about people testifying of Him but the scriptures pointed to the coming of the Lord Jesus. Whereas today we are an epistle that's known and read of all men and God has put the writings upon our heart taken out the heart of stone, as to stoping it at calvary. In that heart of stone was as to the law and the letter of that stone, the letter which killeth and engraved in stone. And today we are the heart of Christ the very flesh and bones of Him. A heart of flesh. Christ's heart. And ah, out of that comes forth the issues of life. So were God's supermen and were passed from death unto life. And Folks this sounds erratice and ah, maybe you don't understand it. But never the less you will never be more eternal than you already are. Now this is probably shocking. You'll never have eternal life. Never any more than you've got it right now. And you will never have more power and opportunity of power, never than you've got right now. To rule with a rod of iron. The government being upon you're shoulders as the son's of God. And you will never have more riches and splendor and magnificence and rights as to the power of resurection and life than you've got right now. Never! I know you know through the theory and the teachings down through the years and the allowance of all of this natural thing of ah, lying divinations involved in ball games and political powers, and all of these other thing's. The church has literally been devastated as to that extent. And the children of God put in bondage to where they couldn't really do anything, say anything, or having no voice in the matter, or the powers of intellect controlled and turned it into a worldly empire as to money or whatever. That's why Jesus turned over the tables and popped the whip and drove them out saying as to the book of revelation when it, the prophesy came and the Word of the Lord came, You have made my house a house of thieves as it was said in the scriptures there going on to revelation when it says become a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. My tables are filled with vomit. You can't eat at the table of God and at the table of devil's. So I will spew you out of my mouth because you are lukewarm. I would that you where hot or cold. On one side or another. That is not knowing I would not impute sin as to being cold. Now if your hot to know if you'll do right I could bless you. But because you're in between you do know and don't do that means I I can't look on inequity I spew you out of my mouth. Tables as to religious activity is just a vomit to me. All spewed out of my mouth. Well anyway I'm going to kinda conclude here by saying one or two little things. And I want you to just think on it because I read to you the time is at hand. What does that mean? Peter said ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. I don't have time to elaborate on this to really bring it out in detail, and I try to take my time with a few ah, preliminary things as to the aproach to where I could just compact a few of these things I need to take a lot of time on. Maybe you'd understand better. But the time is at hand. What is meant by that? See that was Jesus that made that statement. He said the time is at hand. What does He mean the time is at hand? Well let's analyze it just for a few minutes. Four hundred and thirty years before the law ever came God gave a promise to Abraham that at a certain time I will return unto Sarah, she shall conceive and bare a son. And in this child all nations shall be blessed. And then the Bible spoke of this saying and when the time of the promise drew near. I told you how the jews missed this. They took that to be as to the jewish nation and not to anybody else. But we know it said and threw this seed all nations shall blessed. And Paul having a revelation he realized this and Paul said all nations. And this is the mystery he said and to out time of this revelation, that the gentiles should be fellow errs with the jews. And you know how that God at that time over in Jopa sent ah, somebody up to Peter from Cornelius house who had been fasting and praying till the angel spoke to him and said send for one named Peter. Ah, he's lodging at Simon's house over by the sea side. And said he'll come down and tell you what you need to do as to opening the doors to the gentiles because Cornelius had done such a great thing and become up a memorial before God. Coming up into Heaven as a memorial before God, and the Gentiles came in. So then we know that we are the spiritual jews. We know that they are the House. We know that on this side were dwelling in Heaven. And we know that we are following Christ glory to glory, change to change to come into this wonderful thing to bring forth the dead. To resurrect the dead. We are not waiting to pass from death unto life in the knowledge of all these things I'm telling you, and in the tutoring of these things as to bringing it to an ultimatum to explain that were all powerful. Why we are the power and the resurrection. Why that we are alive forevermore. Why that we have all knowledge and wisdom and understanding all things that my fathers made known unto me I've made known unto you. And as to the coming ot the spiritual jew in the day's of the gentile and this vision of the unclean things that Peter saw that was only typical as to the cleansing of the blood over here on this side of calvary. Putting enmity between us and to the body as to the serpent. See bringing a new beginning and bringing a new world and bringing a new creature. And here we are in these things Jesus saying the time is at hand. And in the book of revelation here we are a generation that's come to calvary that to know a time a time is at hand. That the time is at hand. What does he mean I say again that (end of tape 1 side two) promise. Then the sun shall come all nations shall be blessed through it. Then four hundred and thirty years following it came to pass. We don't have time to elaborate on this. But then came the seed at calvary. The promise seed. And what was said. It was said ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. That is to say the promise seed is here, the one to whom the promise was made. And Paul said the law, it came upon us until the time of the reformation. Or it came to reveal the impurity's of our life to make us see the need for a savior and why that we are dying that we might look unto God. And in this looking toward Christ there came a Savior, there came a deliverer. And in seeing the time of the promise fulfilled knowing that the time was at hand then came the promise seed who went down into the heart of the earth to preach to the souls that was in prison to loose them from death. God hearing in a day excepted as to suffer them as well as you and I who was dead in trespasses and sin. Going to the heart of our earth loosing the soul to make him a son of God to where he wouldn't be in bondage to the beggarly elements of this body as to these human senses. So then we are on this side of the Jordan as Joshua was. The light shining. So more night. No more of the other side of the hill, but God is here. No more shadows of dout no more clouds of dismay. We know He's once and for all the day star eternally and forever dawning within our heart. And when He comes from there and this coming here and it comes together then this molecular structure is going to penetrate it's going to come through as the light and were going to find ourself just like you would look at a crystal. Everything gone, the infiltration gone, the beginning of the creation of God and this wonderful thing displayed as to this Heavenly treasure on the inside of these earth an vessels made manifest in these blood genes. Our very genes Paul said. As to this wonderful body of the Lord Jesus. This light as to the stones of that city most precious like a jasper stone. Even the light of the understanding of the mind of God destroying evil in the image of the devil with the brightness of His coming as we preach it here and H speaks against that old image of the devil destroying it putting it out of the way. Nailing it to calvary taking it away by His cross. And the light of that city most precious. Even the light of the Lamb which is the light of that city. And in that city crossed over the Jordan of the intellectual mind to find ourself as lively stones built up into a Holy priesthood. God's building and a great master builder Paul as to Christ putting this together laying it upon the foundation of the Apostolic leaders and then Paul being Christ as to the great capstone the revelation, the all seeing eye. The time is at hand. The time is at hand. The time of the coming of the promise. For the Bible said and in the fullness of time God sent forth His son made of a woman, made under the law. Ant to redeem them that was under the law. You know I say this a lot of times a man thinks he's a big thing. He thinks he's such a great mighty thing, and that woman she's a little something like a puppet on a string to be told what to do and to push around and mistreat her. The Bible said deal not treacherously against the wife of thy youth for God hateth putting away. And ah, he thinks he's so mighty but consequently God didn't come through the man when it came to the body of the Lord Jesus. He wasn't born through the man at all. Not of his blood seed at all, He completely bypassed him altogether. He was born of a woman. So that should make us have a new respect for the woman and let the light be shed a little more on her. As a matter of fact it makes me real glad because ah, I'm in the feminine gender and not the masculine gender when it comes to the comparison with Christ. Though I'm in the masculine gender as comparison with to my wife. But in al reality flesh altogether is but one. She's what I am she's one with me and were just in the feminine gender as to the Great Spirit as Adam and Eve was as to the great Spirit which is in the masculine part. So this makes me happy because we bring forth Christ in out life. This is a great wonderful calling. We should be virtuous holy and Godly, and as a woman should obey her husband in all things as to the church so should we as the body obey Christ Jesus our head, even the word in all things that we conform to Him. And let me say these few things and were going to close right here because there's so much to say. This means that if were over the Jordan there is no more death to us. Just touching a little bit on Paul's mystery as some things that we expounded to Betty ah, at full length. So then were on this side of the Jordan. Now being on this side of the Jordan there's no record whether your earth open up as to the graves as to death to swallow the people anymore. It was a new generation a new birth the children. Now being on the other side of the Jordan. Someone would say well Brother Pike what do you mean on the other side of Jordan? I'm not on the other side of the Jordan. Well if your not on the other side of the Jordan that means that your still abiding in death. For to be carnally minded is death, and the Jordan is the carnal mind and the Jordan was only a type of the carnal mind. There would have been no Jordan had not been for the need of a carnal mind to bring to pass all of the things that's spiritual. For the Bible said all of the heavenly things as those things that are in heaven even from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear even to the eternal Godhead so that were without excuse. And the heavens declaring His handy work and all of the earth full of His knowledge. Which that means if you unveil as to revelation. I'll have to hurry along because we don't ah, I get along about this place here and were really just getting started but your strength begins to go out and the supper table, the dinner table, these things begin to call you know. And the carnal mind begins to get in there and you done heard so much you can't, you can't retain it. And ah, you you'r interest dwindles away because you can't stay with it. And that's why the Brethern get it a lot of times in these little meetings when ah, you don't get it. You don't have any strength to hold on. Like a little baby nursing on the breast and it'll it'll nurse and it'll pull, it'll nurse and the milk will come down after while it's running out the side of it's little mouth and it'd done gone hard and fast asleep. See so, and that's al-right desire the sincere milk of the word that you might grow there by. But the meat is to the strong. Your going to have to have some endurance, your going to have to have some strength. You'll never be a soldier that goes to the battle unless you've got some kind of strength. And you'll never be the horse that pulls the king's chariot unless you learn to fit the harness, and you'll never have that beautiful decoration as to be admired. So here we are. Were over the Jordan. Being over the Jordan, lightly touching on what Paul was trying to tell us. Then I show you a mystery Paul said. We shall not all sleep but be changed. He did not say we shall not all die, because christians don't die. People that are not christians do die. And as I so have said in the past, I say again that when I speak about that people that are naturally minded you couldn't never tell them there's a difference between sleeping and death. As far al there concerned intellectually you're all put in a box and that's it. Pardon me, they don't see beyond the veil, and they don't see anything that shows a differentiating between these things. But beloved friend I can tell you from the bottom of my soul I've been there I know I've been from both sides and there is nothing less than a world of difference between the two. And I say this and you probably wouldn't understand it being carnal some of you. Some of you that are spiritual would right readily understand it. And that is I don't live in the world, neither do I abide in the world. Neither am I in the world, neither do I desire the world. Neither am I in search of anything of the world. The world to me is the pride of life the lust of the flesh. All of that passed away with Calvary and I am dead to the world by the body of the Lord Jesus as to that that was offered for my sins. And I am alive in this heavenly world as the body of the Lord Jesus by the body of Jesus Christ that was resurrected from the dead. I've passed from death unto life, I shall never come into condemnation because there is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus and being not in the flesh I cannot walk in the flesh because I am not in the flesh I'm in the spirit. And if I was in the flesh which means in the carnal mind I wouldn't be in the spiritual mind which means the spirit. So I could not please God. So without faith it's impossible to please God and there's no faith as in the carnal mind it's enmity with God. The creature subject to vanity it's made for this world. It's the body of Lucifer. It's not the body of Jesus Christ, Christ is the beginning if the creation of God. So then to please God I have to have the mind of Christ to have the faith of Christ. Having the faith of Christ I as Enoch God hath as to the inner man translated me into the marvelous kingdom of my God. And I'm being transformated from year to year from day to day from time to time by the revealing of these glories from glory to glory understanding to understanding. And this glory being made manifest as this wonderful wisdom of God that maketh your face to shine. Or this light that penetrates through this outer veil even to the fullness of it as Jesus on the mountain. And we brought out some the other night. Pardon me. Why that it was just to the head as to ah, Stephen's and to Moses. But here we are this glory on the inside, heavenly treasure in earthen vessels. This glory that's to be made manifest within us at the coming of the Lord as to the transfiguration. The change. This glory, this wonderful heavenly treasure I've got it in my earthen vessels the Bible said these things of the world, these beggarly elements with all of the splendor and glory of the terrestrial is not to be compared to this glory of God that is to be revealed within us. As to this wonderful body of the Lord Jesus and the glory of the cellestrial world which glory we have even His glory. Father glorify these with the same glory I had with the before the world ever was. And standing on the mount of transfiguration there was Elijah and Moses fulfilling that glorified with him after that He had accomplished the purpose done what was to be done went into glory ah, as the finished body, as the finished product, as the completeness of the church and there was Moses and Elijah in His glory. And now were in His glory. Not only in His glory as to the illumination of the glory as to the image in which Adam was made. But we are in His glory as to the inner man having been translated into Christ which is the glory of God. And were one and this now as to this glory on the inside being made manifest in out mortal genes being made manifest oh, my that's such a thrill that's so wonderful that's so mighty. Everything that you ever could be you've always been in Christ and you still are, and your going to be. Or that is to say it was back there given to us in Christ before the world ever was. And then it came to us in that God is a great light, a spirit, a word, a mind now He's in out heart as a mind and He is now as a spirit and life as to the abundance of those things. The rent veil the reveal the unveiling and the cherubs as to the covering cherubs Moses, Elijah. These kind of things that we can't explain this morning. Coming forth as to the ark of the covenant. My how beautiful! The four eighty three the seven and there it was as to the church age massagers. Anyway close to the closing of the door now. Which we'd like to say something about. But with this this wonderful glory that is to be revealed in us. This wonderful glory we are already all of the magnificent things folks. Overcoming setting down in the throne with God already. And ah, rejoicing forever more. Dwelling in heaven, eaten of the hidden manner because we overcome the outer man. He that overcometh that is to say the inner man overcometh the outer man, he'll eat of this wonderful revelation of Christ. The world can't get this. The world can not obtain of this because it is not given unto them to know the mysteries. They are the house, see and they are the harlots, and they are the swines, and they are the dogs, and they are the beasts. And some brute beast made to be taken and destroyed. But anyway you are the four knowledge of God made manifest as God's as from His very loins as to God who's reproducing God's. And God's begetting God's and now the time is at hand. John said, pardon me Jesus said, the kingdom is now here. Which was at calvary the law and the prophets until John since that time the kingdom of God has been preached. Men as to the inner men press there way into this Kingdom translated into the Spirit of Christ. Heaven is declaring His handy work. Now the preacher to perfect your faith. That is to reveal to you this mind that He has freely given you as to the mind of Christ to the fullness of the forming of the child on the inside as to the ministers travail. And this word of God coming to you and this faith of yours as to part to part and finally the completeness of it and there you are. The faith of Jesus Christ, the mind of Jesus Christ, the life of Jesus Christ, the body of Jesus Christ, the glory of Jesus Christ which is God made manifest in human flesh. As the word made flesh the mind the word the glory. See from glory to glory and there you are as to whatever member you will be as to your allowance. Jesus raising from the dead giving gifts unto men. And ah, according to whatever you submit as to surrender as to the outer man that's what your measure are. As to higher higher in the school of wisdom ever let me go. Deeper deeper more in your sufferings and all these other things more of your grace to know. As to putting off the old and putting on the new. So then that means that we are those for the time is at hand. The people upon whom's the ends of the world have come. To that as to the natural structure all of that was beyond calvary and we who are on this side of calvary are the spiritual beings. This is heaven, this is a new world. That's why they discovered America, it's the new world it was a type. See but were really genuinely in the new world and so new creature new world old things passed away. Heaven and earth passed away. The stars fell from heaven. Every thing Lucifer was cast out. All that's already happened. See you can't see it because your, I mean you can see it, your in the spiritual world. They can't see it because they judge after the flesh. But there will come a time when the seven will come back to the four eighty three to finish the four ninety as that which is determined as to the time element or the earthly episode. And when the earthly episode comes back in they'll see all of that thing at calvary. They'll see revelation twelve. They'll see the casting out of lucifer. They'll see all of these things that happened and then they'll have a chance to bring in the millennium as to the world without a curse and on from that to the transfiguring into the celestial of the eighth day as to the circumcision or the veil being moved. So then we that know the veil is already rent and the veil is already moved as to this veil that fell over the eyes of Adam and Eve. It's gone and that old body of problems is dead and gone. That old veil of death, that human structure that perverted man that man of evil that wretched man Jesus said wretched naked and blind. He said that's the wrong kind of garment. It has to be killed. It has to be purged, it has to be put through the fire. A new creature born of which you are. And your bodily structure as in the mind of God which will be displayed at the change thessalonian change at which will come forth to be seen when He appears. He shall appear in glory and be just like it as Moses and Elijah appeared in glory. So then with these little exhortation's this morning as to try to program your mind remember the time is at hand. What did John mean? It meant the veil has been moved. Jesus said and the time is at hand as to the now the kingdom is here. Or the ark of the covenant has now been revealed. The open exposure you can go right into the holy of holy's and see it for yourself now. The heavens that is as to represented by the ark or the mercy seat. Now you're in heaven. Now your in there. The body of Jesus Christ your the high priest to the earth making intercession for all in Christ's stead making intercession for them that are in the earth. Praying that God will grant repentance unto them that are without in that God doesn't hear a sinners prayer. There hast to be a priesthood, there has to be Jesus Christ the body the high priest of our confession. He will not hear a sinners prayer and there has to be an offering and that offering has to be a lamb without spot. Which Jesus Christ offered as of His own body putting His blood as to a new blood with a new life. Doing away with the old beast life as to killing the beast and doing away with that as to an innocent beast to point to the innocency of Jesus. That when this new blood came the old blood will be gone as to the red dragon of that life of passions. That ending that then comes the blood cell of Jesus Christ the beginning of the creation of God as to the new blood life and this new blood as to the divine conception. And so then we are of that blood as royal blood within our genes which gives us a royal stature as to appearance. The full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus to the full reward depending on how much we are willing to submit of ourselves. That's why the Bible said save yourselves as to the bodily part. And ah, the time is here. In revelation what was meant? The veil was gone. When the revelation comes the veil was gone. The veil over the mind is gone. And ah, as to Jesus the veil was gone. The intellectual veil of the law and of the Jews and the curse. Now the son's of God were there. Greater than John. And now the light was there and they that sat in the regions of the shadow of death, that is to say the veil of that intellectual reasoning that came upon them through the weakness of the flesh. He said now this veil is eradicated and the great light, the true light now shines. Which is the understanding of God. The tree of Life. Cut down the tree of knowledge bring the understanding of God for the wicked shall not understand for they have knowledge ever learning. But this is the tree of understanding even Christ within you. All that be of Christ shall be of a good understanding. The Spirit of the Lord upon you making you of a quick understanding. All of your enemies will be afraid of you because of your wisdom of entering into canaan. So in closing right here with these thoughts time is at hand. You are the people upon whom's the ends of the world have come. That on that side of Jordan ended it. Now there's a new regime as to the judges that is to judge Israel. Samuel the king's coming in all these beautifull things. See were on this side of the Jordan. We now have the mind of Christ, the faith of Christ. We say what we will. We do what we will. Were caught up to Heaven. We've been born and the child has imediatly caught up. We can not be unborn. We can not sin because we can not transgress the law and transgression of the law is sin. And we can not die because if we can not transgress the law in that it's folded up and taken away and there is no transgression then there's no sin. If there's no sin there's no death because sin is the sting of death. Oh grave where is your victory in that you have no sting. Death has no sting. So here we are the time is at hand. What am I saying? I'm saying that this was work down through the church ages so it comes to this time of the evening light. Great light springing up to them that sat in the regimes of the shadow of death. Gross darkness shall cover the people in the evening time. But it shall come to pass that in the evening time during the twilight there shall be light. Light in the evening time. This light shining in the midst of the intellectual darkness of today they can not comprehend it. Ever learning can't comprehend it. But you being children of Light comprehend the heights the depth the width and the length to transformate into that other world. And ah, this glory to be revealed in you at the change. So the time is at hand. When we say the time is at hand. When we say the time is at hand what am I saying? I don't mean to get boisterous but anyway the time is at hand. What am I saying? I'm saying that the Lord is near. Neigh even at the door. And when I say that folks I'm talking about the body of the Lord Jesus that will be coming to the Jews with the nail prints. Am I waiting for the coming of the Lord? Of course not. Am I waiting to see the Lord? Of course not. I do always the things I see my father do. Am I dwelling in the world? Am I afraid when it caves in? No! Why? I don't have anything to do with it. It has nothing to do with me all those things want even come near my dwelling. For all around me I dwell in heaven as the inner man. This old body as to problems as to the devil beating on it if you withdrew from it you'd be in paradise because you couldn't feel the afflictions of those things in that Satan would have no power over you in that he has power over the world as to the dust he could still cause you problems. But Enoch was changed by faith. Changed, I'm not gonna say anymore about death as to Paul's mystery. Maybe one day we could say something about it. But I'm saying that now we've come down through the church ages as to the seven fold light which means if the church is coming to the recognition of who they are where they are what they are they know there not in the world. God made it real clear. Real clear through the angels to Lot that I can do nothing those angels said until you get out of here Lot. And Lot was the church and the very day that Lot went out the fire and the brimstone came down. Like the vision I had of the fire and brimstone then come in the millenium. See and the church as to Lot there vexed by the evil conversations of the wicked world. And the Angels have come to deliver. And the church is about ready to go out as to what you call the change. And really God's coming back. He's coming back to you? No he's not coming back to you. Coming back for you? No he's not coming back for you. Then how is He coming back? When is He coming back? What reason would He come back for? Who? He's coming back to the people of this world. He's coming back to the Jew's for the Jew's. Why do you say that Brother Pike? Because if he's coming back to you and I we are in trouble. I've told you numbers of times that in the old testament when Aaron the high priest on that certain day of the month went up there for the atonement it was said that if he tarry long wrath is determined upon the people. If he come quickly all is well. And Jesus Christ the high priest of whom Aaron was a type of has entered into the Holies of Holies and folks he came back real quick. He went away and after ten days came right back and had told them at the supper I will go away and not eat with you again until I come to sup with you in the Kingdom of God. Which Kingdom of God came unto us by the spirit of Christ which lives in you. All power in heaven and earth. And the resurrection and the life. Eating and drinking with us ten days after he went away all is well with us. He's already come back. I've already seen Him. I behold Him in the great clouds of witnesses and I've already seen Him. He's already appeared unto me the second time without sin unto salvation. He said the world want see me but I will return. I shall be in you. He is in me. He walks in me, were one. Everyday of my life wherever I go I am His temple. I dwell in Heaven where He is. I see Him all the time. I'm not waiting to see Him up there. Jesus said I dwell in Heaven Nicodemus and I do always the things I see my father do. And ah, said restore unto me the joy's which means let me get rid of this servant form of this infliction that as with Lazarus I might enjoy the paradise that I'm really in as the inner man which is in heaven. Being grieved by that outer conflict I can not enjoy my paradise except I project faith enough to overcome these things. And I have to suffer the consequences of sin because of my Brethern. Now the time being at hand then the end of the world is here. What is the end of the world? It's a mind it's a nature and of course we can't get into all of that. What is heaven? The brightness of His coming. If we know all of these things then as we from glory to glory believe all of these things having been translated as to the inner man into the kingdom of Christ now were transformated by the mind from glory to glory to come to the full ultimatum of the fullness of the mind of Christ to the full stature to the full reward as to the change into His bodily image. Which means that is the rapture. That is the change. That's what the rapture and the change is. And when you suddenly discover that it's all over and that your not as Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah anymore then comes the fire and the brimstone. Because that is what the translation and the rapture is. And acknowledgement as to Enoch being translated by faith that he should not see death. And it would take quite a bit of explaining there to bring out Paul's understanding caught up to the third heaven whether in the body out of the body I can't tell. But as in this caught up and as to explain what the revelation does. And what you have to do with it in your spiritual being and your natural being. But anyway the time is at hand. All things are at an end and your the generation that's come to your calvary now as to have this. Also to you as it was to them. And ah, the fullness of time God sent forth His son. Ye are the people whom have come to the fullness of time and therefore God has sent forth His son born of a woman made under the law. This is what baffled them and they could not understand it. Though there hearts burned within them as He expounded the word and opened the scriptures to them by the way. But they had a problem and that was they said we know your origin. See so they judged after the flesh but you and I judge after the spirit. So then if this is true and that heaven really is a revelation and that God is really a revelation and that life is really a revelation and the resurrection is really a resurrection and on ah, ah, revelation and on and on we could go. Then it would make you understand more if we continued on as to understand what Paul's mystery was. I show you a mystery we shall not all sleep having caught into heaven he had something to say. I can not say these things he said it's there's some things that it's out of season he could have said. But there are some things that's left the church. And as John said as to the thunders he said I heard them but I can not wright them down. These are they that must be revealed to you at the proper time. Al-right let's stand together. There's a lot of other things I'd like to say. A lot ah, few little things in detail especially here in the end. Because I can say them at other times but to fit them together at this proper moment and make them fit in to the puzzle is when ah, as to be able to make you to understand. If they are brought at other times and they're far away from the puzzle as just those pieces that you see you can not really get the picture. So great things is happening. Mighty things are happening. Ninety Three seven years calendar wise left. And ah, Mr. Bush a new election. And the Bahamas a new election. And ah, Jimmy Carter going around and monitoring the new elections. And the Pope getting ready to go to the Holy Land the first of the week. The covenant to be made. And then the covenant to be broke in the middle of the week. What is it? The angel should stand with one foot on the land and one foot on the sea. And time shall be no more. And the mysteries of God shall be finished. What are the mysteries? A mystery is the world. A mystery is the world. That's a veil. These things are mysteries to them parabolic that's the world. Your a parabolic mystery that's the world. It's a mind. It's a condition of spirit. And God veils Himself in darkness because He is light and He is a revelation. He is a word He is a spirit He's the mind of God. He is the revelation. And as He breaks forth as the light coming over the harizen as to the morning then you've got a day. For the day star is dawning within your heart and things is beginning to clear away as to the shadows of night and were beginning to understand. That is by faith of that knowing as to the preaching of the hearing that something is happening to us. And the shadows are dissipating and the brightness of the son is taking away the icy cold inclosure of death to reveal the new growth of the springtime. As to the song of the birds and as of to the poppies. As Solomon said in his parabolic speech as to the blooming of the poppies and ah, as to the voice of the turtle. The voice of the turtle as to the turtle dove heard in the land and today the voice of the turtle is calling to it's mate. The little poppies are beginning to show their face as to the breaking forth as from within the veil and their little petals reaching out toward every end of the world. Something great, wonderful, mighty is taking place. Ah, give us a song Lord give us a song. Give us a song. A song that we can sing all the day long. A song in the daytime a song in the night a song Heavenly Father that will make everything right. Give us a song and He gave us a song. He gave us this song in the land. In revelation that period with the song of Moses and the song of the land. And He gave us the song of the Lamb. And the Jews the song of Moses. They sing this song crossing the red sea they sang the song of Moses. Now were singing the song of the Lamb. Let's sing this little chorus together as we comment along and sing a chorus to the closing. And your meal will taste better to you because you give me a little time, or gave God a little time this morning. If you don't do that life will sour on you soon a belly full of ulcers, suroses of the liver. Pains and misery. All kind of things striking your bone of structure and nerves and deadness and lack of life. No exuberance no feeling and all of these things that made you relative to life as to the human senses become dull and numb. The youth and insperation and ego of life gone. No more feeling of passions to enjoy family union or no more of these things to where you can enjoy drinking and eating. Taste buds gone, hearing gone, eyes dimming. All these things and then you'll search for life and you'll realize how foolish you was to let satan defile you're temple and rob you of the light that should have been a light to men for Christ sake that you might have received a reinversing and a refervishing. And you find up like a pot to be thrown in a hole and nothing but pain and misery to reheat because you wouldn't listen as in the days of your sowing. Youth listen to me. Listen to me. Remember the creator in the days of your youth that way you wont look back and say I have no pleasure in them. You'll look back and say I'm glad of what I sowed I'm having a good time. For the end of that man and woman is peace that soweth the right kind of seed. Let's sing a chorus together. (singing) The altars are open. (singing) Let's sing this song. (singing) You love the Lord? Let's sing another chorus together. Were not going to hold you but just a few minutes then were going to let you go. But let's worship the Lord in spirit just for a few minutes. Talking this morning I kind of got you over by the help of the Lord in to a spiritual mind again. They that be of the spirit world do mind the things of the spirit. That's the other side of Jordan. Cross over to the other side of Jordan. That's the other side of Jordan. And they that are in the natural they do mind the things of the flesh because they are children of this world. But you're not children of the world so you're not wondering in darkness neither shall that day come upon you unaware. As a snare shall it come upon al of those that dwell on the earth but ye shall know when it's nigh even at the door. Let's sing that little chorus can we. (singing) Now let's sing it like this. (singing) Sing it. (singing) Somebody say Hallelujah! Let's sing another little chorus. We could just go on singing because I feel the joke broke this morning which makes me happy. I was disturbed the other night. And ah, in this don't drift to far from the shore. Drifting to far from the shore. Drifting to far from the shore. Let's sing this little chorus I was fixing to close but I feel like the Lord wants us to sing another chorus or two. (singing) Can you sing that with me. (singing) Sing that with me. (singing) Let's sing this little chorus. (singing) Can you sing it with me? (singing) Were going to sing it one time together. Remember now ye are the people upon whom's the ends of the world have come. The ends of the world which meant. Peter meant that now the shadows of the cross and as to the curse as to the allegoric's of the old testament. The world has passed away and now you are in a new world a new creature. The light is here and this is your calvary and the end of the world has come. You now have a mind for another world. You now have light as to not this daystar as to the natural sunlight but you now have light that is that Lamb which is the light of the city in the midst of this wonderful building. Who's building Paul said lively stones built up into a Holy Priesthood an habitation for God founded upon the apostolic teachings of the foundation to that wonderful capstone of the all seeing eye even the prism. The stone that come crying grace grace that fulfilled all that Moses had done to become the head of the corner. And in this God smiting that light to bring the open door as to the prism that spectrum that formed the rainbow of the bridge of Noah as to that covenant over the wrath of God over the tribulation period into the great millenium to bring us a king sitting upon a throne to rule and to rein in righteousness. When Jesus came as to the end of the world He said and a certain built himself a vineyard and he let it out to men. This husbandman allowed men to have this vineyard. And when he let this vineyard out he said when the time of the fruit drew near he sent for the fruit. He sent men for the fruit. And when these men came they ceased this, these men and they pounced upon them and they killed them and put them out of the vineyard. And it alarmed the husbandman Jesus said he sent more. And as the more came they did the same thing stoning some killing some whatever. He said and at last he sent his son. Sending his son he said they'll reverence my son. He sent his son and when he came near the vineyard and they saw him they said this is the eire let us pounce upon him. Let us kill him and then we'll seize upon the inheritance and then the vineyard shall be ours. Then Jesus said what will this husbandman do to these wicked men. He will come and he will take the vineyard from them and he will give his vineyard to another that will give him the fruit in their season and he will slay these wicked men. And these men pharisees and scribes they perceived as the gentiles of today will that He spake of them. And they said God forbid. He said well then what is this that is written in the scriptures. What is this the prophets have said the stone which the builders rejected the same has become the head of the corner. This is marvelous in our eyes for it is the works of the Lord and it is the doings of Him and marvelous in our eyes. And sure enough above all of them and the pargenda He rose and rose until He for filled every jot and tittle saying if I be lifted up I'll draw all men unto me. And hanging between heaven and earth He did it. And He rose up to capstone the whole thing. Everything that Moses had commanded all of the law the other builders could not capstone it nor could they finish the work. Having the law none of them kept it but when Jesus rose up and He capstoned it even as Paul did with the Christ unto the gentile people. Being caught up into the third heaven as to Christ being revealed within him as to that that had been caught up in the time of Jesus to the jews as to the heavenly time of the church ages. Jesus the head of the corner. And so then it was said that I built myself a vineyard and I done all that I could to my vineyard. There was not anything that could be done to my vineyard but what I did it. I planted it. I watered it. I did everything that was necessary. But my vineyard brought forth sour grapes. Brought forth sour grapes. Remember the childrens teeth were on edges because the parents had eat sour grapes. I brought forth sour grapes. What must I do to my vineyard? I will have to cut it down. And folks the time is at hand. John layed the ax to the root of the tree for the jews and now that seven has returned to the four eighty three the closing of the door to the gentiles and the new tree as to the tree of life, even the second man Adam the quickening spirit. As to you being branches of that great wonderful tree. This tree having reached to heaven no only reached to heaven but it penetrated as to the veil of the spears and the confinement of the gravetational powers of lust and human desire and excelled and went into heaven. And today that tree branches forth on either side of the river it's the tree of life. With the leaves for the healing of the nation. He sent His word and healed them. And leaves are sembolic as to the tongue and the fruit for the delight and inspiration. The joy unspeakable and full of glory. So it's so wonderful to be a christian and be here and know that the end of the world is here and that we understand it and that were indebted to the whole world. As much as lies within us to preach the gospel to the whole world, you and I. And to do whatever we can around the world to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Bid it God's speed you're partakers. Let's sing this one little chorus. Last little chorus we'll let you go. (singing) can you close your eyes? Can you give Him a wave offering? Remember no when you discover. When you discover your no longer in Sodom and Gomorrah but ye are they that dwell in heaven the fire and brimstone will be upon the world. The end of the world to them as to destruction He returned real quick to you and all is peace. He dwells in you. He's with you all the time. But He's returning as of late after one time to the world and to the jews and great wrath is upon the jews and great wrath is upon the world because they've not seen Him. The world shall not see Me. And they're looking for Him and everything is right at an end with the fall of America it's the closing of the church ages as to the compound light the Pope coming to make, to bring in the six six six. He's the man with the mark. Germany a power of catholicism there mark as to that that was said they make the money of the Jews which is the mark. And everything is falling in place as to that one money that the great United States will have to accept because falling to thirteenth place and one down indicates as those stars falling from Heaven. They've been in a new world, they've been in a heavenly world. The child has been caught up to the throne. They've ruled over the nations as a symbolic's has been there as to the millenium and as to the great wonderful celestial and now this age is closing out. And the stars are falling from heaven. Even as in the dark age when the Jews went through this to show it as in that time. Wish we had al lot of time to bring out the mysteries of God for great is the mystery of God. And it's given to you to know but only as to thirty fold, sixty fold, whatever your willing to give yourself to as to spend your time in or whatever. But get in and those things are behind pressing forward to the mark of the high calling which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Once again were going to sing this little chorus and I'm going to ask Brother Ron Pasdon to come if He will. I think of Ron a lot of times ah, as the ancient of days. The white hair, he's prematurely white and ah, white hair is so beautiful. The ancient of days the great God of youth and strength and power and magnificence, riches and honor and glory one day will appear after the millenium after the son ship, after the son has complete as his regime. And He will appear as the great wonderful ancient of days who's hair is as white as the wool. Feet as it was in Jesus like fine brass burning in a furnace. It is a light a penetrating light with Him. And ah, He will appear to judge the entire world to change the entire structure. And completing something like we are completing this morning as to say this then it would be fitting to have him to come up here this morning. I think of Brother Ron Pasdon and sometimes as been said the passover and ah the Jordan getting over the Jordan on the other side of Jordan. I trust you're on the other side of Jordan as to what you now have heard this morning and that you're thinking different that there might be the faith of Christ the mind of Christ as to come to change your body at the coming of that devastation upon the world. Because as to you the inner man you're already in glory. It's all finished. You're complete in Him and as to your outer man it's already finished in glory. You are in the for-knowledge of God the body of Jesus at the right hand of the Father and all your waiting for as the head that breaks from the matrix then all of the sudden it's there and the body comes forth. As to the exposure the veil of calvary rent in twain and there is the little child caught up to the throne in the Fathers arm. As Jesus riding over the tribulation period anointing Him kind to sit upon the throne even as the church is first born to come back with Him on the white horses there as to the natural among the natural and the spiritual among the spiritual.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord