Comprehending Bodily Redemption

Checking up on them and they've been coming but they've been sitting back in the back or somewhere in the balcony and I haven't been seeing them but they've been coming and I think that's wonderful. They have not been married all that long. Young lady is Brother Johns daughter from out of Mississippi a very fine man very fine dad and mother. Well this morning we talked about the open door in heaven. You know you talk about open doors and that's really something. But I remember Paul one time said, pray that doors will be open to me, and that's really something open doors as to an entrance or an exit. But when you talk about a door open in Heaven that is really phenomenal. Who ever heard of a door being open in heaven? And of course, when you think about a door open in heaven we just kind of think of that like this you know. A door open in heaven. I wonder how that could be and where that is because of course most people don't know where heaven is at. But isn't it wonderful when you suddenly realize that you do know where heaven is and that you do know where the open door is and you do know how to go in and out that door. And how wonderful it is to be able to go in and out that door. Have you ever been in and out that door? I've been in and out that door and it's so beautiful it's so wonderful. Well anyway that would take a lot of talking you know to try to explain what I'm saying. Now this morning we had a number of people here that I didn't know was here. And the last night of service on a Friday night was it, we had people here that I did not know was here and we had quite a number of different people coming in and out and it could be that some of them are here with us tonight. Some of our people that worship God and follow our ministry from out of Florida was here and there was a number of other people that's been here in the last few days. I had a night vision or over in the morning I believe it was sometimes and I looked and I say quite a number of family's coming to visit with us and I say visit I don't really know why they were coming but there was quite a number of people. And they were very fine people and they were very careful to scrutinize everything as to what we was doing and it was as though they were searching for a church home. And there welcome. Little Bethlehem the home of the soul were actively engaged in world evangelism. And though were not as active as I'd like to be sometimes all of us get kind of slothful toward the work of the Lord whereas the Bible says not to be slothful toward His work but to be diligent. Be about the Fathers business and that we should seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and then all of the other things that we desire in life would be added unto us. You know it would seem reasonable to me if we would just stop and consider a little bit that if God is our Heavenly Father if God is our creator if God has so made us the way He has with the appetite and desires He hath given us and then hath in return after making me an appetite that I should desire the fruits of the trees that He would give me the fruit to satisfy my appetite. Or He would give me the things that it takes to satisfy my human senses after that He had given me my human senses and the desire for these things. So He would have to be so good and He would have to be such a wonderful God. But still when we think about going to meet Him and having the abundance of His life and abundance of His blessings in that Jesus, said, I've come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundant which means filled up and overflowing in that He said I am the prince of life. When we think about meeting God and going back to the originality then we get all shook up and we get afraid and we get nervous. And somehow we don't want Him to come just yet and we don't want to stop what we're doing just yet because were full of zip and we want to do something we want to live you know and when we think of God the first thing we think of is we got to die which is pathetic. You don't have to die. Jesus did that for us it's appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment and Jesus did that for us. Christians don't die no not now nor ever. And the way everything is going the redemption of the body coming in they want even go to sleep. Paul, said, behold I show you a mystery we shall not all sleep but be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump from mortality to immortality. So it looks like that our hearts would be overflowing and we would rejoice to see His coming. Whereas the Bible speaks of them that will be glad at His coming that long to see His coming as being His children. And knowing that God is so fixed it that way even with Adam and Eve in paradise knowing that we've fallen from that as through Adam. And now God has restored us back to that and His very presence is with us and He is dwelling on the inside of us and we are the temples of the living God and God lives in you and walks in you and God is the spirit of life and the creator of all things and all things emanated from God. You know knowing that it seems like we would hasten unto the coming of the Lord to want to have fellowship with God. What is it then that makes us draw back. The Bible says if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But what is that that makes us to draw back? It is the infiltration of sin and the dread of the judgment because we've not accepted the blood of Jesus. All of our lives subject to bondage by fear of death until were born again. Jesus, said, to Nicodemus less you be born again ye shall not even see the Kingdom of God because the Kingdom of God cometh not by observation of the eyes. And neither shall they say lo here is the kingdom of there, Paul just saw a great light just a great light. Not the light which was God as to the extent that when He comes the heavens shall flee away the earth shall flee away the sea shall flee away there shall not be anything left except Him and those that are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ he whom the Bible speaks of as being the one and the only one that dwells in that light having immortality. Being bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh then you have the privilege of being in that light. And what is that light? It's that wonderful knowledge as to the revelation of Jesus Christ. So then the lamb being the light of that city it will be that great wonderful understanding that will fill the city and you being the lively stones He said I will remember you when I come to make up my jewels and I will spare you as a man spareth his son because you spake often of me. You know that would make us want to talk more about Jesus isn't that right. Makes us want to talk about Jesus. I remember a recording we made one time for Joe Record Company it was called "Talk, Talk, Talk About Jesus". And what we need to do is talk about Jesus. Talk about Jesus when we are together as the Brethren talk about Jesus. When were in the church talk about Jesus. When were on the job talk about Jesus and bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ and when He comes He will remember you when He comes to make up His jewels if we talk, talk, talk about Jesus. Well anyway I'm glad you're here tonight we appreciate you coming. If there is someone here that we haven't acknowledged it's not because that we don't want to acknowledge you we appreciate you from the bottom of our heart and we want to let you know that you're welcome at Little Bethlehem. Not only to come to be a visitor but you're welcome to come and be part of our operation for God. A lot to do for God. Busy trying to send the gospel around the world, need all the help we can get. I wish we had a lot more help in the different offices. Were supposed to have a backup in every office but we have some that refuses to train others in because they're very careless. They are not fully active in their office, they're not fully conscientious about soul winning and their just in and out and up and down in their experience and in their production. And they will not train anybody else in as a backup because they are afraid that that person will take their crown because they know that they're not going to be fully active with a regularity and they're afraid that the other person might be and so then they keep it so nobody else can so anything. And they stand in the door and they won't go in and they hinder those that are coming. And this is the one thing that disturbed Jesus is when people did that. And we've got some at Bethlehem that does it and it doesn't matter how much you exhort them no matter what you tell them they still don't lay it to heart and they don't incorporate that in their life style. Whereas the Bible says give the more earnest heed to the things that you've heard lest at any time you should let them slip and take heed how that you hear them. Al-right the Gospel according to saint John, chapter one.

 in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life and the life was the light of men. 

He said that and the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. So we talk about the light of the world. We've talked about this so much the light, the light of the world. And in talking about the light of the world then thank you Frank then we know that Jesus was the light of the world. Notice it says in the third verse "all things where made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made, in Him was life and the life was the light of men" and when you say the light of men you are saying the understanding of mankind. In Him was life. When Jesus came it was the abundance of life. He was the prince of life. Remember Adam was the prince of the world but Satan over took Adam and became the prince of the world. So then Jesus Adam being a figure of Him to come Jesus was the abundance of life. The Bible says that God the eternal Father the Great Spirit tabernacled or dwell within the body of Jesus not in measure but the fullness of God. For the Bible says that God giveth not the Spirit unto Him by measure but God said this is my beloved Son in whom I am pleased to dwell. So then we know that He tabernacled in the body of Jesus. This morning we spoke of that and we spoke of the door open in heaven and we spoke of the dispute how that there was a dispute over the body. Jude brings this out that in the time of Moses when Moses was supposed to have been buried supposed to have gone on out of this world and been buried left. Yet they can't find the body of Moses and Jude brings it out that at the time when death came to cease upon the body that the angle of the Lord said the Lord rebuke the Satan. Something had happened to Moses' body and he had got so close to God like Enoch three hundred years he walked with God and Enoch was not for God took him body, spirit, soul, everything and so then it was that the same thing happened to Moses he walked with God. And the Bible says he was faithful in all of his house. This same thing happened to Elijah. Elijah walked with God and Elijah was faithful and so then when the time came to call Elijah he didn't go by the way of the grave. He just stepped over the Jordan stepped on to a fiery chariot for the Bible says that there came down out of heaven horses, prancing horses and the fiery chariot and Elijah just stepped on board and waved goodbye to Elisha and threw the mantle back. And he had said if you see me when I go I'll give you your desire and the desire of Elisha was I want a double portion of what you got. Said this is a hard thing but if you see me when I go then it's granted unto you. And the Bible says concerning Elijah that Elisha followed him. Even the son's of the prophets said, "have you heard that your head's going to be taken away from you, you're master's going to leave you." He said, hold your peace I know all about it just hold you're peace. And Elijah said, "Elisha you stay over here I'm going over yonder." He said, "as the Lord liveth I won't leave you, wherever you go" cause he knew he had to stay right with Elijah to see him when he departed and he knew that he was going to depart, it had already been made known to the son's of the prophets and to him and he knew that so he stayed right with Elijah no matter where Elijah went. And the last thing was when he crossed over Jordan Elisha was right on his heels and just about the time that they got over the Jordan and was walking together as the scripture gives all the sudden down from heaven came the prancing horses and the chariot of fire. And he cried out oh my Lord the chariots of Israel and the horseman thereof and he stepped on board it and away he went just like that. See so we know that there's something that were missing in the day that were living in. See we are missing something. Just think now Enoch went away by faith he was translated that he should not see death and he didn't even have the baptism of the Holy Ghost cause the Holy Ghost had not yet been given. And there was Moses. When Moses left they couldn't find his body, later we find that he's on the mount of transfiguration if glory so we know that he went away and that's why that they can't find his body. And then when it come to Jesus He stood on the mount of transfiguration also. Elijah, Moses, Enoch see and these people. Think about that now. They went into glory and here we are we say that we are the sons of God, they were only the son's of the prophets but we say that we are the sons of God and the Bible says he that is least in the kingdom of God as a member of the body of Christ bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh is greater that John. And there was no prophets greater than John. Nobody born among women that was greater than John the Baptist. So then here we are. Can we deny that we are son's of God. Can we say that God made a mistake and He wasn't speaking of this age that He was speaking of another age, or what's wrong with us. Surely something is taken place that we have not, not been able to fathom and there's something that we've not been able to get a hold of. So as it was with me one day I was talking with the Lord and I said Lord something is wrong. I don't know what it is I don't I don't have the ability to find out I've been to churches I've preached all across America, and Canada and Mexico, and going into Hawaii and Alaska all these kind of places and I said what's wrong? I don't understand what's wrong. What is it that's wrong? This is in my early ministry I said what's wrong? I said surely to the great God of heaven Heavenly Father that we are better off than the prophets was, and I said and if though I be the least You said that the least is greater than John and there was none greater than John born among women. And John had the spirit of Elijah and was sent as a man from God as to for run Your coming. I said if we are greater than John though we be the least then what is there missing? What is it that's missing? For I said Elijah went right on into Glory I said and Enoch went right on into Glory I said and You just took them right into the kingdom of Heaven just like that and I said and now here we are children of God son's of God and here we are greater than John according to Your testimony and what's wrong with us? What's wrong with us? And I heard the Lord so sweetly speak to me I said Lord take me into the kingdom of God to. And He said I did I did and before the world ever was you became my elect by foreknowledge and I have translated you into the marvelous kingdom of God. And I said well Lord I want to be In heaven. He said you are. I've chosen you out of the flesh and hid you with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring of all things. And I have justified you and I have sanctified you and I have perfected you forever and I have glorified you and sealed you on the inside by my Holy Spirit and nothing can touch you and you are without spot and without wrinkle and without blemish. And He said you are my body and bone, My very body and My bone and being the apple of My eye. He said, I've given you all things that pertain unto life and I've given you the desires of your heart and not just as John but said, say what you will and don't doubt and it will be done. Ask what you will in My name and I'll do it. Decree a thing in your heart and it shall come to pass. And you know I began to perk up and I began to think my God no wonder the church is in the condition that it's in today. Father we have not fathom what you've done and I heard Him say ye are God's but you die like men from the lack of knowledge or that is the understanding of God. And I thought that's it right there that's where the problem is. We've not properly applied our self so we don't understand and because of that we still have to die. We still have to die and we still have to pay the price and yet we that are Christians do not die but sleep but we still have to have the time of the separation from the spirit from the body and that's not what God wants. It's not necessary for you to be put in a casket. It is not necessary for you to die. And when I say die I use human terminology it's not necessary for you to die. It's not necessary for you to die in your soul because if your born again you can't die that's impossible for the inner man now beloved are you the sons of God as to the inner man and that can never die. A son of God can never die, he is a God and a God can not die. And so then the body the body, what about the body? Can the body die? No, the body doesn't die either. Someone would say now Brother Pike you know it's appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment that's the Bible, and if you preach the Bible you've got to preach that. I do preach that and I do believe that but I also believe there's line upon line and precept upon precept that it's also written. Satan will take the scripture and he will quote the scripture to you to take away you're inheritance and to keep you from the inheritance that he might confiscate to take control of your body and inter into your body during the time of the grace period that he might turn the grace of God into lasciviousness with his foolishness and get out of the dry places that he might project his personality through your body rather than let you project you're personality with God through the body. So then God says that He looked down from heaven and He heard the groaning of the prisoners and He loosed them that was appointed unto death for He heard them in a time accepted and suffered them. So then the time accepted was Calvary and He suffered them there so it's obvious that he looked down at a time accepted and suffered them and then sent the Lord Jesus into the heart of the earth to preach to the souls in prison to give them a beautiful garment when they cried how long oh God, how long oh God before you avenge our blood upon them that dwell upon the earth. And He said just a little while and the Bible says, He gave them robes gave them robes that is He gave them of His own body said put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. Here is the garment that has been tried in the fire so put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ This is the body that passed through the flames of Hell that you and I now will wear. This is the garment you are now covered with My covering so you are now in my image for my covering is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and if you put on the Lord Jesus Christ having been baptized into Christ putting on the Lord Jesus Christ then ye are in the image of God and that is the garment that has been tried in the fire. See I counsel of you to buy Me garments that's been tried in the fire. He said you're garments are moth eaten. Now if people who have died if Jesus went down there to give them that body it was because they had been baptized with death for they all died under the law not having received the promise but looking forward they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims and they embraced the promise as to what God said would be at the time of the coming of His son. And the Bible says at the time of that reformation or in the time of the coming of Jesus as to the promise seed then when Jesus came the promise had come. And going down into the heart of the earth He redeemed them that was under the law. Not only did He redeem them but He redeemed us by baptism in that He took away death for us also and He baptized us in His name as to the ministry and so today we are dead. Paul said, consider yourselves dead to the world and dead to the sin of the world, you must come out from among them and be a separate people because you are not like them they are dead in trespasses and sin. And you don't look for the living among the dead. So then He said come out from among them and be a separate people touch not the unclean things and I will receive you saith the Lord. So then we know for a surety that something has happened and the church world is not being taught this and the people have not grasped this. This is why that there has not been a translation as to the change of the body of going into the kingdom as to what you refer to as the rapture or the catching away. Is the body yet to be redeemed? I said this morning that it is not. Can I say that I am waiting for the redemption of my body? No I cannot say that. Why? Because the Bible teaches that the body is the purchased possession it's already been purchased. It was purchased by the blood of Jesus at Calvary. It is the purchased possession. And the spirit of Christ coming into my heart crying Abba Father, this spirit is the earnestness of my inheritance. And so then I have received the earnestness of my inheritance and my spirit has been translated into His spirit and I am already a son of God. That makes me a God, that makes you a God. You that are born again that makes you a God, that means you cannot die. Once you're born again you can't die in this world your born into this world you can die out of it but when you're born into that world you cannot die out of that. But when you're born into this world that is a temporal life and you can die, you can lose that but when you're born of God you get eternal life and you can't lose that you can't die out of that. If you could die out of that, if you could lose that it wouldn't be eternal life. I've said a lot of times, to correct the error of peoples thinking, that Adam and Eve did not have eternal life. I know a lot of people say, Well, Adam and Eve had eternal life but they did not have eternal life. If they'd had eternal life they would have never died. So they did not have eternal life. They were illuminated with the Shekinah glory of God which was life and they lost that because they turned away from it and just as the sun goes down and the darkness comes so it happened to them. But beloved friend it isn't that way with us though were under the grace dispensation is allowing for the body until the change and then after that God will destroy the wicked for He's He is angry with the wicked every day. He would have already have destroyed the wicked but in that were in the likeness of their image and we have not been changed He's got to make an allowance. So then when they went into the darkness they died. That was intellectual reasoning from the tree of knowledge which means darkness in that it separates as iniquity it separates you from the light of the understanding of all mighty God which is the tree of life. So we know we are born of the spirit we are, we have the spirit inbreed within us and we are sealed on the inside and darkness cannot get near light so that means that we cannot sin because the semen as the seed of God remaineth in us and we cannot sin because were born of God. And if we be born of God then are we children of God. If we are children of God then, Paul said, then are we partakers of the benefits of the inheritance where the terms is used and God has given you all things that pertain unto life. Just for the believing saying thine iniquity's have kept me back from good things. For I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth. I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob. My blessings shall make thee rich and add no sorrow. It is I that giveth thee the power to get wealth. So as a God that means that you have everything in heaven and earth. Someone would say well Brother Pike may God hasten the day that this comes to pass to where I'll have these benefits. There is no such thing as God hastening the day that's why I said to you there is no day and night with God. Were no waiting for the coming of the Lord. Why do you do that? Why do you say that? Why do you think like that? Somebody says well isn't Christ Jesus coming back? Of course He's coming back. Isn't He going to come to where we can see Him with our natural eye? Of course He's coming. He's coming. Then He's coming back to us. He is coming back to the Jews. He is coming back with the nail prints. He's coming back as Jesus to the Jews. He came to me years ago. Christ comes to everyone that is born again. I will come unto you and the world shall not see Me but ye shall see me even with your eyes of understanding He could of said. The eyes being enlightened and as you comprehend the heights the depth and the width and the length of this wonderful heavenly thing down through the church ages. So then someone would say but brother Pike when will the body go to heaven? The body is already in heaven why do you think like that. Someone would say well how is that? Well tell me how is it that the devils in heaven. Someone would say well I don't believe that. But never the less he is. Someone would say surely Brother Pike you must be eccentric talking about the devil in heaven. It in the twelfth chapter in the book of revelation you'll find out that the devil was in heaven. The Bible says there was war in heaven and Michael and his angels fought and Satan or the dragon and his angels fought and there was a fierce battle right at the time the woman was giving birth to the child she also was in heaven. But the child was caught up to a third heaven where Paul, said, such a one as I knew being caught up to the third heaven I saw things or that is things where made known to the one he spoke of that was not even, it was no permissible for him to even speak those as to the times and seasons. And war was in heaven and when the woman gave birth to her child all of the sudden up to the third heaven went the child and the war was fierce and Michael and his angels fought and the dragon and his angels fought and there was war in heaven. And then the old dragon was cast out of heaven and there was found no more place for him in heaven. Now if the dragon was in heaven how is it you think I am so far off trail when I say your body is already in heaven. Not only your body is in heaven, since Calvary every living human being it doesn't matter if they are a murderer it doesn't matter if they are wicked. What could be more wicked than Satan? Isn't he the murderer, isn't he the liar isn't he the cheat all of these things happen that happened with mankind isn't that Satan doing that unless it is God through mankind doing that which is right and good. All are in heaven. The Bible says Jesus died to take away the sins of the world then is there any sin to anybody at any time in the sight of God. There is not, the blood took it way and the blood is on the seat of atonement and God is looking at the world through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. And when the Bible says this is as the waters of Noah to me then it spoke of taking away the sins of the world or gathering all things into Christ as in the days of Noah all things was gathered into the ark. One of everything of that which was of the species of all of the things of the earth to preserve life. Now when we come to Calvary this is as the waters of Noah to me and the Bible says in the fullness of time God will gather all things into the ark into His Son for in the fullness of time He sent forth His Son made of a woman made under the law and during that time which of course was Calvary He took all things into the Son. How did He do it? Because the blood took away the sins of everybody in the presence of God there is no sin and God gathered all things into Christ. How did He do that? By grace. When the sunshine comes out it takes all things into its scope and the fullness of the scope of the sunshine it takes all things, the trees, and the rivers everything is lit up. And being the daystar as Jesus is said to be when the grace of God came it took all things into the scope of the grace of God. And this must continue, it's only a dispensational grace and when the sun goes down as to the daystar then darkness comes and then those that are outside that don't have life they're in the darkness. But if a man hath a light of his own or if a man is in a building that is lit or as the child that goeth into the house where the light is then there is light. So you having the daystar dawning within your heart having the light of God the understanding that is of the wonderful knowledge of God then this light on the inside of you is a light that guides you. This light came and the Bible says it was the life and light of mankind. And this life and this light is inside of me. It is Christ in you the hope of the same glory that was about Jesus, Moses and Elijah when they stood in glory on the mount of transfiguration. And the Bible says at the time of the change the Thessalonian change that everyone that have this hope that is Christ the hope of glory this hope within him at the coming of the Lord he shall be changed into the glorious liberty's of the sons of God in that the creature itself at the bar mitzvah or we say at the adoption which belongs to the Jews the body having to be adopted by law we wait till the Jews come as to the law. The Jews going out of the presence of God at Calvary Paul, said, if the casting away of the Jews as to the bodily part if this be the reconciling of the world then if that be the reconciliation then when the Jews come back what will it be but life from the dead. Or if the body comes back in want it denote that our body is no more dead. Or if the rending of the veil be as making in Himself twain that is both Lord and Christ a spirit and body to separate the body from the spirit and bury the body in baptism as death. As the old body of Adam to bury it and to bring forth the new body of the Lord Jesus Christ being buried with Him in baptism. Putting on Christ resurrected in the newness of that which we put on which is the covering of God almighty even the image in which we were made. That image that was lost through the fall of Adam and that lost to a beast. Tracing the origin back to the beast we know that people are nothing but beast but we are sons of God. We are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our body has already been redeemed it is the purchased possession where not waiting to redeem the body but we are waiting for the adoption of the body. We are waiting for the adoption. I'm born again in my spirit I'm already a son of God I already see the kingdom of God. Christ has already come for me and He said I go to prepare a place if I prepare a place I'll come again to receive you unto my own that where I am there ye might be also. And He came back to me and said the world will not see me but ye shall see me for I shall be in you. And so then He went away and prepared a place. What was the place He prepared? It was the Fathers house and He said and in My Fathers house there are many mansions if it had not been so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place that I might receive you unto my own that where I am there ye might be also. And where was Christ? He was in the Fathers house. And what was the Fathers house? It was the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And who are We? Members of that body in particular. And where are those mansions? It is members of the body. Someone would say well I can't fathom that Brother Pike but you could if you were spiritual. See you can't receive anything except it be given to you of God. How can you then fathom that He will remember us to make up His jewels and that we will be the beautiful jewels of the celestial city built upon the foundational stones of the apostolic leaders. And these wonderful stones shall be built up who's light is most precious built up to a corner stone and that corner stone being Paul the wise master builder of these stones and that by the revelation of the Son of God. Even as Moses with his blue print built that in his day as pertaining to the tabernacle so as Paul and yet not Paul but Christ in that Paul was dead five times beaten at the whipping post three times with the rods stoned and left for dead in prison out in the sea all these kind of things. It wasn't Paul living it was Christ the wise master builder. And it was said that He hath laid the stones as to the foundation of the city which was the apostolic leaders. And then there was a capstone, his name was Paul and yet it wasn't Paul it was Christ. And that wonderful wonderful overseer of this beautiful beautiful city called new Jerusalem this beautiful city. There is an old Jerusalem and then there is a new Jerusalem and when Jesus came to capstone all that Moses had done I remind you once again when He spoke to the builders of that day He said the builders have rejected the cornerstone and the same has become the head of the corner. Whereas a pyramid and a head corner is the pyramid stone. The stone that came crying grace grace and the stone that was rent in twain we esteemed it smitten of God as to rend it in twain. Or that is to say the dividing asunder the body from the spirit saying the destroy this temple speaking of His body and I'll raise it up in three days. But they understood not that His body was the temple of Al Mighty God. Whereas the Bible says you're the temple of the Al Mighty God. And they understood not that that was the temple of the Al Mighty God until He'd resurrected from the dead. So then when the stone was rent in twain or the smiting of the stone the life was refracted and then as I said from that over the great church ages from the four eighty three to the seven and then as to the angle that stood in the mist of the tribulation period having his head up to the throne of heaven the rainbow about his head. The rainbow that was over the throne in the book of Revelation where the lamb was sitting. John speaks of this. And that rainbow being as to the seven candlesticks that threw the rainbow up here in that wonderful Shekinah glory of God here. I set My bow in the clouds to show you there'll be no more wrath. And it was to show the rainbow about the throne and the clouds was to be you and I for the Bible speaks of being compassed about with such great cloud of witnesses and Christ appearing in the midst of those candlesticks during the glory of the church ages. And those candlesticks as to that light in that, like scientist say you cannot see light then the colors as to the attributes of God the seven spirits of God this came down as seven church age messengers. From the throne of God it came down and it was the first and the second through the seventh and it was Christ as Paul in the midst of those candlesticks. Saying no I that liveth but Christ that liveth within me, the life I now live in my flesh I live by the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. So then we know that the light was refracted. And we know that the prism came forth as to the colors and we know that that was the open door in heaven as I spoke of this morning which has been opened by Peter. And as to the separation of the body and the spirit there came the seven from the four eighty three and the church age messengers which is the word of spirit and life even the covenant that God makes with you as He puts a rainbow within your cloud or within your spirit that He might establish His covenant with you that you might escape the wrath of God. And sure enough as to the wrath of God up to the four eighty three and the body is smitten the first born even as it was down in Egypt and they go out into ignorance and darkness. And you are caught up into heaven and the grace of God within the full scope takes you in all through the church ages so that the woman is seen in travail. Paul, said, Christ within you I travail until Christ be formed within you. So then the woman is caught up into this heavenly place and the stars was upon her head as a crown and she stood upon the moon even as the woman America has emphasized the foot prints of the moon having been caught up as to the child and Alan Shepard opening the door as I said in the symbolics. So then that means that there has been a heavenly period which Daniel did not see. Daniel saw the four hundred and eighty three years to Calvary. He saw the seven years after the church ages. So he saw to the church age and he saw after the church age and all together that was four hundred and ninety years of the earth perspective and He said Daniel your people as to the inheritance is the earth He could have said as to that of Abraham. And being the bodily part there's just four hundred and ninety years for them or as to an earthly perspective. And anything from the four hundred and eighty three over to the seven is the heavenly perspective, perspective because the door has been opened and John went up into heaven. So when Jesus came taking away the sins of the world now the grace is upon the world the blood is on the seat of atonement and will continue until the end of the age and the dispensational grace will be gone. But we that are born of the light it will continue and when the door closes as to the seven back to the four eighty three as the end of the church age you say the end of the days of the gentiles really the church ages then that means America is no more because America is that woman and America is the place of the church ages and America is the place of the church messengers. And just as quick as America has finished her government then everything is over the door will close to the Gentiles. The door will be closed in heaven and folks that's where we're at right now. That's where we're at right now. The other night when I said something about the door as to when it would close it's right there now. Since America has gone to Sodom and Gomorrah it's ready to be burned. The door is closing America is over. The woman is gone away in a wilderness. The child has been born even as that of George coming up here the other night showed that when we was trying to get that over kept getting, having such terrible interference. See the child. Who is the Child? Someone would say well I don't think it's been born. Do we have anybody here that's ever been born again? Obviously the child has been born. So then it has been born. What then are you preaching for Brother Pike, what is all this your saying. I am a helper of your faith, I am here to tutor the child. You put it in school so it can be tutored so it can recognize its power it's authority it's great ability as to what can be done for the Bible says that God is able to do abundantly above all that you can ask or think by the divine spirit of Christ or that which is within you. So you cannot obtain onto it yourself for the Bible says this knowledge is higher above your understanding than the heavens is the earth. So it has to be revealed to you so I am here to tutor you. The ministry is a helper of your faith. Were to make known to you the wonderful benefits of the child and though you be lord of all yet because you are a child you're still under tutors and differ nothing from a servant. But there is going to be a time as to the bar mitzvah and the adoption and through the tutoring of this as to the transformating of your mind the child is maturing and coming to the proper stage of life. So this means that's it's being made known to him who he is. For what is the revelation of Jesus Christ? It was the spirit revealing to Jesus Christ that He was God almighty and that without measure that was the revealing for the Bible says this revelation was the revelation not of Brother Pike or of Brother Taylor or of a great Brother that is preaching the gospel or anybody else. But it is the revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave unto Him and through this He hath shared it with us as to whatever measure we will allow to come into our heart and into our life even the full measure of the full stature on to the full reward if we will allow that to be so, depending on our submission. Well anyway this is what it's all about. That spirit on the inside what is it doing to you and I? It is revealing to you or them that have it whether it be me, you or who it is revealing to them that they are all mighty God. They are members of the body in particular. They are sons of God and they are the bodily temple of all mighty God and as the Bride of Christ they are one with the Spirit. Jesus said my father and I are one and ye are His body the bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. So you according to the measure of whatever you can receive you and the Father your one to do what you say to be what you want to be to rule with a rod of iron. And the Bible says the child as soon as he's born he's caught up to the throne and sure enough when you're born again your spirit goes into the kingdom of God which kingdom of heaven is within you and you're caught up to the throne as the inner man as to being the sons of God right now. And so then it said He shall rule the nations with a rod of iron and shall break them as a man would break pottery just anyway He wants to do. He has the power the authority all things are His all things was made for Him by Him and for Him was all things made and without Him was nothing made that is made all things was made for His pleasure. So then again I say that there was something missing. And I said well my God I need to find out something and I began to search and the Bible says to seek is to find, to knock it will be open unto you, to ask and ye shall receive. So I did exactly that and He kept His word. So today we are in a great wonderful wonderful time and that is that ye have been caught away into heaven and ye are sitting in heavenly places and you're no more in the flesh so you cannot walk in the flesh you have been chosen out of the flesh. That is your inner man is gone away and you're body is now dead by the body of the Lord Jesus. At death the spirit goeth back to God who gave it. You're vessel has been rent in twain and you're spirit separated from your body and you're body has gone into sleep until the change. So then you are dead to the world dead to the world and the things of the world and no longer dead in trespasses and sin but ye are alive unto God for buried with Him in baptism ye have been resurrected in the newness of life. And so then you are a new creature and you are in a new world and there is a new heaven and there is a new earth and behold all things and old things have passed away and we are with Christ in Glory hid with Christ in Glory; or that is we are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received. So the Lord (tape 2 side one) think anymore of Enoch than He did of me. And here we are Hallelujah! Can anybody deny the word of God. Somebody said well I don't believe that. That means you didn't make it. Let's give God a hand. Enoch was translated by faith and faith by the hearing of the word of God because the heavens declared the handy work. So then that means that if you do believe then what are you? Could you be anything less than God's being sons of God could you be anything less than a God. As I said being a son of a dog could you be anything more than a dog. Being a son of a man could you be anything outside of a man. Being a son of God could you be anything other than a God. Let's give Him another hand. So were finding out lots of things right here at the translation as you would call right here at the adoption as I would call it right here. What is the adoption? Still choked up with cold a little bit. What is the adoption, can you tell me? Somebody said well it's the translation. No it's not the translation you've already been translated into the marvelous kingdom of God. What is the adoption? Someone said well it's the change, get a little lubrication for my throat. What is the adoption? It is the change that will come as I say in a moment of the twinkling of an eye. I say this so often to you so that you want get miss put in your minds as to this transitional change of tutoring. See when I say and I remind you again that we are waiting for the change and I say Brother John what are you waiting for. And John would say I am waiting for the change. I say you missed it Brother John when I clapped my hands it took place in the moment in the twinkling of an eye or I say here you are John you made it. You understand what I'm saying? So then are we going to be such child like people that were going to set around and wait for it and that's it. Oh no there's a lifetime of conforming there's a lifetime of transformating there's a lifetime of receiving tutoring. A child may receive a diplomacy this quick as I put it into His hand if I was a professor and if it was the time of graduation and I put it into His hand. But the diplomacy that he received what does that mean, he is now a great one with a diplomacy. Oh no he was a great one with an education as the world counts it greatness. He was great and because he had his greatness he received a diplomacy which was an award as to let everybody else know. We do not know what we shall look like as to the world looking at us through natural eye but we do know that the diplomacy of this thing is that in a moment in the twinkling of an eye all of the world will see us as we outshine the brightness of the noonday. So then when we get there want we be great. What is greater than a son of God which is a God. How much greater could you be. And John said now beloved are ye the sons of God, it doeth not yet appear what ye shall be like though ye be a son of God which means Lord of all yet you differ nothing from a servant because you are a child and you need to be tutored you need to be taught. But wherein some of you are taught to be tutored wherein at this time ye should be teachers and you have need to be taught which is the principals as to the beginning of the oracles of God. Because you've not listened therefore men continue to do as what the world calls die or death when that's not necessary. Can a son of God die? Oh no. Well does a son of god have any power? Power all power over the enemy and death is an enemy. Then do we wait as to the last enemy being concurred as it was said that it would be. No! Why should we wait the death that you speak of as to the last enemy will not be concurred till after the millennium at the end of the millennium when hell gives up it's dead and the graves give up it's dead and all of those that reject God shall be cast into the lake of fire which is called the second death. Whereas there isn't but one death but it's called the second death because you have a terminology that as men go to sleep they die. He said I go to awake Lazarus he's sleepeth. He did not die he is asleep just like those in the old testament even before the great wonderful spirit came. The Bible say's to Daniel you shall rest in your lot. And it was said as to Jacob he fell upon sleep. And it was also said as to Lazarus he was in Abraham's bosom in paradise and there was Abraham also but the rich man was in hell. He lifted up his eyes in hell. Well it would take too much time to go into that and brake it down as to bits and pieces whereas my wife does put it together as a puzzle where just trying to put together a little part of it at a time to where you can get a hold of it and understand what were saying. Then are you great? He that is the least is greater than John. Not going to be greater when he receives a diplomacy there is none greater among men among the prophets not even Abraham, non greater than John the Baptist. Non born among women any greater than John but not withstanding Jesus said he that is the least in the kingdom and the law and the prophets where until John since that time the kingdom has been preached, men press their way into it and ye are already a member of the body of the Lord Jesus. You're already translated into the marvelous kingdom of God. You're already God's and you're already son's of God. You're already great, none greater than John but he that is least is greater than John if he be in the kingdom. Let's give the Lord a hand. So the church is coming to something and someone would say well I believe it's coming to the adoption and it is, but then it's coming to the adoption so that we can be great. Oh no. I say again, oh no, it is not coming to the adoption as to manifestation of son's of God that the world may see their greatness. It doeth not yet appear the world does not see it. Do I see Christ? Of course I see Christ I do always the things Jesus said that I see my Father do but He was in the form of a servant but He still in the likeness of man He still saw it. Do I see it? If I be the body of Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever then the Father is with me the Father's in me. I do the things I see the Father do according as to my submission as to what I conform to as doing those things that's what I am as to my measure that's what my measure is and that is what I see of Him as to the measure. Well anyway it's wonderful to be in heaven. How many of you enjoy being in heaven? Serving God is joy peace righteousness in the Holy Ghost. Ye that set in heavenly places rejoice forevermore don't be sad Hallelujah don't be sad don't think about the world don't think about problems all of that's left behind. When a man dies all of that's behind you we are a new creature in a new world. Somebody would say well Brother Pike I just can't feel like that. Well pray that God will grant unto you the joy of your salvation if you feel like you have salvation. Folks let me tell you this is real were not telling fairy tales we are not telling you these things to be telling you. Isn't the Bar Mizpah coming as to the adoption and yet the Bar Mizpah really came at Calvary but isn't the adoption coming. Somebody says and when that comes then I'll be changed and that will be that glorious moment. Well it will but if serving God is joy peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost and we are setting in heaven and we've overcome and we set down in heaven and we are eating of the hidden manner isn't this joy unspeakable and full of glory, sure it is. So then what are we waiting for to go to heaven, oh no were already in heaven. Somebody says well Brother Pike but you've got to remember now to differentiate between the body and the spirit the body's got to go to. It already has let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody would say well what in the world are waiting on. Were waiting on you to wit to recognize to come to the knowledge of you know that you're not going to take off like a plane. Somebody would say well aren't we just going to go up like He did. Sure Jesus went up and the angle said ye men of Galilee why stand ye here gazing into the heavens where of course Jesus disappeared said for this same Jesus that ascended and went up shall come back in like manner. Whereas He will set His feet upon the mount of olives as I said this morning but the thing is what was that going up. Somebody said well He went into heaven. Folks He was always in heaven. He said to Nicodemus there's no man that's ever ascended into heaven except the son of man that came down from heaven who is in heaven. And you say that you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh and you're not in heaven. How is it He said that you're not in the earth and your setting in the heavenly place and I've hid you with Christ in God whom the heavens have received. And how is it that He was great just because He went up. He'd already proved His greatness He'd overcome hell He'd overcome death. He had overcome the grave and was standing there in all the greatness that a man could stand in there was no more greatness that He could obtain unto. He ascended to the Father; why, that the blood dipped vesture might be on the seat of atonement that He might leave it there as the body and as the spirit of Christ come back as Aaron into the temple or tabernacle to officiate within you to bring you this as all things to your remembrance as to the tutoring that you might comprehend that that you might believe. And that the revelation of Jesus Christ as to you might make the body the bride as to bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh as to the transformation travailing till Christ be formed with you in you as to the transformation of the mind from glory to glory until the ultimatum which would be the diplomacy or what you call the change of the body; we say adoption. Al-right we could go on and go on talking about this good old way. Let us go on talking about the Lord. So then this light has shined in the midst of intellectual darkness and great light is sprang up to the people and they that are not children of light cannot comprehend this light for they shall not see when good cometh. But ye being children of light ye comprehend to the extent that you know that the change is right at the door. So that means that since America has gone out the woman has gone into a wilderness the woman that came forth does not want to be called a lady. We have longed to go through a number of things to explain to you what we understand and feel as to this moment how close the tribulation is what is going to come what the beast is and those things that's going to transpire and we've not been able to do that so we just purpose in our heart as I told my wife whatever the Lord gives that's what we'll bring. So then is everybody being taught this, is it everywhere. Is it in the churches or is it just as Jesus said not given unto them though they be church members it is not given unto them to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God but unto you it is given. Then what are we waiting on? What are we waiting on? When Jesus went up are we waiting to be raptured which means caught up and them that will be great. Oh no He concurred death He concurred the grave before He ever ascended and was seen of the Brethren forty days and forty nights. So then who are you and where are you. Someone would say well that was Jesus but you said that you're bone of His bone and that you're flesh of His flesh. And you said that the Bible says that whatever He is so am I in Him and the Bible says He hath already given us all things that pertain unto life even the desires of our heart if we delight our self in Him. All right lets stand together. This is why the Bible says that we should confident our heart by doing the things that please God and then the heart would believe that He hears us when we pray and then beloved you know that you have the thing that you desire of Him because it's already given to you as all things in for knowledge even eternal life. And the Bible says this was given unto you in Christ before the world ever was and made known through the rent veil as to the preaching down through the church ages. Thus we comprehend the heights the depths the width and the length by faith we are translated because we hear a word understand the word comprehend the meaning of the word and when we understand and comprehend then that's faith and thus it happens. So it's so wonderful to know that the change already took place in the mind of God before the world ever was. I became elect of God by what He foreknew and Paul preached the gospel and said them that were ordained unto eternal life they believed and the other did not. He shook his raiment said your blood be upon your own head I go to the Gentiles speaking to the Jews. So it's wonderful to know that it all happened in Him and our names were written down in the Lambs book of life and who's so ever names wasn't written in the Lambs book of life the Bible says they will wonder after the beast or that is all of them that are not elect as to children of God are beast and they'll wonder after the flesh. Women to paint their lips and to run around in bathing suits and men in shorts and they'll wonder after all of the things of the world and do all of the things of the world and look for human diplomacy. And they will seek to be among the elect or the elite and the upper echelon and they will desire money and fashions and all the things of life because they wonder after the beast which is after the flesh. But them that love Jesus they come after Christ and they follow Christ and they deny the old beast part and they equip themselves with a mind to suffer in as much as he that hath suffered has ceased from sin. They equip themselves with a mind to suffer that they might kill out the natural man because Satan in the world confiscates and tries to work through that and Paul, said, as long as you allow that to live oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death. Therefore when he learned to believe in the righteousness of God he knew his body was gone. And the Bible says reckon it to be dead as to the old body of Adam having born the image of the earthly so shall we bear the image of the heavenly. This tabernacle being dissolved we have another eternal in the heavens not made with hands even the image of the quickening spirit. So then we know that were free from sin and this body is preserved. Don't let sin therefore rein in your mortal genes not for a moment. For Charity the bond of perfectness has been given to you even the spirit of Christ and ye are sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. So grieve not the Holy Spirit abstain from fleshly lust or desire that worth against the soul for ye are spotless ye are the children of God ye are the bone and flesh of Jesus. Shall I then Paul, said, take the bodily members of Christ and make it a harlot; God forbid. So then every thought brought into subjection to the Lord Jesus Christ giving your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service. So then if the dispute is over the body let us remember that the body is the Lords. And lets don't let the devil take it nor rein in our fleshly members no not for a moment. And lets get rid of every thought of the human understanding as to his faculty's that we might transformate in our mind to the mind of Christ that this mind might be in us who was in this that was in Christ Jesus who thought it not robbery being made in the equal of God as to image He thought it not robbery to be equal with God as the spirit. And partakers of all things as oneness with God and err and joint err with Jesus Christ which means whatever He is that's what we are. And as Christ is Paul, said, so are we in Him, or we were made to be God's desire by what Jesus did. And today we have His faith' His unweltering unwavering faith. Paul turn my people from darkness as to intellectual reasoning unto light even unto the faith that we contend for this faith which is in me. Now the law and the prophets until John since that time the faith has come. The faith of Jesus Christ is here by which you're saved and which you're sanctified. And He will lead you into life by His faith and you can believe unto righteousness with your faith by believing in what He done for you and you're wilting (weltering?), wavering, broken faith as to the intervals His faith will make up as to the missing link. And there want be any shortcomings in your faith. There want be any broken intervals in your faith it will become the faith of Jesus Christ until the change even Enoch being translated by faith that he should not see death. So faith cometh by the hearing of the word and the word by the minister and faith by the word and so its been preached to you canst thou then believe. If you can believe then all things are possible to him that believe. Lets sing this little chorus together. Lets sing this little Chorus together. (singing) Sing that with me. While were singing the alters are open if you'd like to come your certainly welcome to come. Can you sing that with me. (singing) Lets sing this little chorus. (singing) Can you sing it with my. (singing) Lets sing this little chorus. Drop it just a little bit. (singing) Sing that with me. (singing) Lets sing this little chorus. Sing that with me. (singing) Do you feel Jesus. Can you really say that He's been here all the time. Can you actually believe that Christ is with you that He's in you that He hath taken you out of the world and hid you in heaven. (singing) Lets lift our hands up together worship the Lord. (singing) Sing that with me. (singing) Once again now. (singing) Can you close your eyes now. (singing) Once again together now. (singing) I'm going to ask little Ernie if he's here to come up and dismiss us. Lift your hands up close your eyes as little Ernie comes. Speaking of the earnestness of our inheritance little Ernie coming up. So wonderful to be a Christian so wonderful to have eternal life and it's so wonderful to have passed from death unto life. So wonderful to be able to say what you will and have it. To ask what you will and God will do it. Now beloved are ye the sons of God. Already God has given you all things that pertain unto life. Can you believe can you receive that. Why not enjoy heaven. If your dwelling in heaven why not enjoy heaven. Somebody say hallelujah! The devil has been cast out the child has been caught up. Somebody say hallelujah! Woe unto the inhabitants of the earth for the Bible says he is among you; he goeth about like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour. But ye that are in heaven we sing that song ye that are the children of the Lord you may shout your joys abroad shout your joys abroad because we are marching on to Zion hallelujah. But the hills of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heavenly fields or walk the golden streets. And the writer said so let your joys be known. Let every tear be dry for we are marching through Emmanuel's fields marching through Emmanuel's fields to greater worlds on high to greater worlds on high. So were going to praise Him once again. (singing) Can you give Him a wave offering? (singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord