Now Beloved

The Bible says, Now, beloved, are ye, or we, the sons of God. Now it does not appears what we shall be, but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is. So then, let's just talk just a few minutes on this. Now, when I come here I'm usually tired most of the time, and the reason is, is because as a rule we minister all of the time. We minister from early morning until night, to one group, or another group, and we're constantly ministering. Whereas, scientists say that one sermon is harder on the body than eight hard hours of labor. And that would be hard for an individual to understand. It was when I heard it, but when I consider what happens and the way you go about as to working, and the good that the work does to the body when you are out on the job, and the damage that is done to your body otherwise, then it is easy to understand what they mean. But in that it does that to your body, we minister__ Sometimes it could be five to fifteen sermons a day; it could be more. Sometimes perhaps less, but within the length of the discussion and the things that we say constantly talking, then this comes about. And whereas, we've got several thousand tapes, I believe they said, has been recorded, it would probably be no telling how many thousands that would be lost. I'd say not under ten thousand sermons that we have that we've put on tape. And I don't believe that would do it at all. Not at all. But, nevertheless, we're constantly ministering, and the reason we're doing it is because this is a lifestyle with us, as the body of the Lord Jesus. And our goals is to use up our bodies to give it a living sacrifice to God holy and acceptable, as to being pure and godly to Christ, which is a reasonable service in that He gave His life and body for us to redeem us. So then, when we come then we're tired because it takes the very strength of our body. As a woman in travail, I travailed 'til Christ be formed within you. And you remember the vision of the travail that we had. And it is the hour of the birth of the man child. And so then, when your strength mostly consists of Christ, in that you are constantly trying to be before Christ as much in your mind and body, spirit, as much as you can whether it be day, or whether it be night, then that means that if there are people who get godly sincere they begin to take the virtue from you, even as the little woman that pulled the virtue out of Christ Jesus. And with this they get treasures. They get heavenly treasures in their earthen vessels. And with this you find yourself just almost depleted, or completely at a loss to that which they are taking from you. And yet it's not lost in the sense that it's within the radius of the body. But when we say, Now, beloved, I'd like to magnify that for just a little bit tonight. We're always talking about the great, mighty glory of God, the things of God. Tonight I think we went on until just about six o'clock. Or right at six o'clock. And then knowing that I had to preach again tonight we stopped. But even at that point we were wading in deep, deep waters, and had to condense and compact, compile in such a way that we would just have to say things fragmentarily, and say them as in a continuity to where later the heart and the soul, as through Christ in the Spirit searching that it could all be put together as He brings the pieces to the puzzle. And as Billy was saying, Billy Kirk was telling me, said, You know, I had a dream about you, Brother Pike, and in the dream you were wanting me to follow you and you were going to show me how to fish. Whereas, the Bible says, follow me and I will make you fishers of men. So it sounds in line. But at the same time my thought tonight is: Are we going to become, are we going to discover, will we come to something. Well, indeed we will do all of that. But then on the other hand is that really what Christ is doing, is to call us to this? Yes. But then again, is there anything that is different from that? Oh, yes. Yes, indeed, there is. And someone would say, Well, what is that, Brother Pike? Well, what it is, is that now, now beloved. See, that's the thing. Now, beloved. Not about what He's going to lead us into, or what's been yesterday, or as to whatever we're going to discover, but my thought is this, Now, beloved. Now, beloved. What about now? You know, it's wonderful to talk about the future and the things that's going to be in the future, and what we're going to having in the future. And it's exhilarating to talk about the things that we've done in the past, and all of these sweet memories of yesterday. But then, when it comes right down to it there's a lot of people that are interested in now, beloved. What about now? What is happening to now? Or, what is happening today? What is this all about? Now, beloved. Where are we living? In the past, or are we living in the future? Are we living now? I say this so often, that there is no tomorrow with God. There is no yesterday with God. So then, what should we principally think upon? Or what should we make our target, as to a direct strike at yesterday, or tomorrow, or now, beloved. See? Should we be looking for something that is coming tomorrow? Or should we be praising God for what happened yesterday? Or should we be saying, Now, beloved? Now, beloved. What is happening right now to me? What is happening to you right now? Now, beloved. Now, beloved, what? Now, beloved, are we the sons of God. Let's give the Lord a hand. Now, beloved. Not as tomorrow. Not as to yesterday. Not as to one revival and backslid to another revival, but when you are a son of God you're a son of God forever. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year and if there's anymore days in the year you're still a son of God. You are a son of God when you lay down to sleep. You're a son of God when you work on the job. You're a son of God when you feel all cast down in Spirit, cast down in mind and you say, Hallelujah! Now, beloved. Glory to God. Now, beloved. Isn't that wonderful? I believe that you believe that cause I can feel something emanating from you, and I can feel it emanating from one to another and something is saying, Glory to God, Hallelujah, now, beloved. Now, beloved. Hallelujah! Don't it make you feel good just to know that you are sons and daughters of the Lord? Hallelujah! Now, beloved. And neither male nor female, so you are sons of God. See? So, now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. Well, it would take about a hundred thousand hours to go through those things and to detail and to bring out what I'd just love to bring out. Things that are so wonderful that are revealed to you. See? When I say, Now, beloved, what am I saying? I am saying that I am not waiting for tomorrow. Now, let's think together. One mind and one accord. When I bring Zion again they'll see eye to eye. They'll speak the same thing. They'll be in one mind and one accord. They'll march hand in hand and they won't break ranks. So then, let's look at it like this. See? Do I wait for tomorrow? Am I looking for tomorrow that I might be naturally rich? naturally educated? Isn't that the way of the world, as to the stride of time? See? Is that the same way with you and I? Is that the same way with you and I? No. Are we different? Oh, yes. Like a man said one time, You're no different from me. You know, but in my mind I thought, How ignorant you are. And as a woman said to me one time, painted up like a Jezebel. She said, We're all going to same way. I thought, Oh, how ignorant you are. No, there's more than one way to go. Somebody said, But, Brother Pike, there's only one way. One way, and Jesus is that way. I don't disagree with that, but we're talking about taking a trip and it's more than one way. I can assure you there is more than one way. See? I have seen things where they put a door here and a door here and a door here, and three or four doors here. And they let the people flood in through what we call the front door. And when they got there before they entered the auditorium, as to the seating, there was doors all around. But, see, that's all right, we're all going to the same place. Yes, we are, as to the judgment. But, folks, there are going to be different intervals and you can be sure that all of the doors doesn't lead to the same place. Straight is the gate, narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. And you should strive to enter in at the straight gate because many are going to try and not be able. And this gate is a straight gate, like a straight jacket. It is a tight fit and you can't squeeze anything through it. Like it has been said of the camel's eye that is over in Jerusalem, you have to take off all of your load. You have to lay aside the sins and the things that doth so easily beset you to run with patience the race that is set before you. What has hindered you? you did run well. So then, do we all go in at the same door? No. We don't go in at the same door, though grace is upon us right now and the blood of Jesus is on the seat of atonement. It's made allowance for all of our mistakes and wrongs momentarily. But the thing is that when we enter in to the holies of holies, through that rent veil, coming by the way of Jesus, He said, I am the door to the sheepfold. I'm the door to the sheepfold. Not the door to hell. I'm the door to the sheepfold. And He said, And the gates of hell shall not prevail against you because you are the church and you're built upon this Rock, even the Rock, Christ Jesus, and the Bible said, Who is the Rock, but our God. So then, He said, Peter, I say unto you that you are Peter. But now we're not talking about Peter, as to the Catholic Church or the world's discernment, or definement, but we're talking about this Rock. This Rock. Upon this Rock. God, this Rock. Oh, somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, are you then speaking of yourself? Of course not. I died at Calvary and was buried. I'm speaking of this Rock. Somebody say hallelujah! See? It's not I that liveth but Christ, the Rock, that liveth within me. You're the gates of heaven and the gates of hell can't prevail against you. You're the Rock. You're that Word made flesh. You're that cornerstone. You're the body, members in particular. Somebody would say, I don't see how you can do that, Brother Pike? Well, it's easy to do. The Bible said, As He is so am I in He. And the Bible said that all of whatever I'm to be throughout eternity was finished in Him. And when the Pharisees and Scribes said, Well, what must we do to work the works of God? He said, I am the works of God. Moses tell them I AM sent you. I am the works of God. I am the resurrection. I am the life. I am He that you see. I am He. And wherever He was, said, the Messiah, lest you believe I am He ye shall die in your sins. Now. So then, when we understand this, the Messiah must come and show us all things. Is anybody learning anything at all? Let's give the Lord a hand. Are you learning things that you didn't know before? The messiah must be somewhere around. How could it be otherwise. As on the way to Emmaus when He walked in the midst of them and unveiled the Scriptures, and the Bible said they're hearts burned within them like coals of fire. Somebody say hallelujah! He must be getting closer by all the time. Everybody's heart is not burning within them. Is it? But them that can see, that have eyes to behold. So then, Jesus said, I go away, but I'll come again. He said, And I will appear the second time to them that look for me, and I'll appear unto life without sin unto salvation for them that look for me. And someone would say, Well, amen, preacher, I believe that, and I know it's coming and I'm watching day and night. Well, that's good. Hallelujah! That's good. But then there is something that perhaps that you did not see, or understand. And that was He said, When I come the world shall not see me. Somebody say Hallelujah! I think everybody is looking toward the Eastern sky. Everybody is looking for Him to come. But the Bible said the world shall not see Him. Come on, folks. But He said, Ye shall see Him. Isn't that right? You shall see Me. Is there anybody seeing Him at all? Something is taking place. I can see that you have got the victory and I can tell it's happening because I can tell you're seeing something. And I'm the same way that you are. I'm beginning to see something. Hallelujah. I'm beginning to see something. I am rejoicing in the Lord. Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. That was Paul. Paul said, And I say unto you rejoice. Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. Rejoice forevermore, ye saints of God. Ye that dwell in Heaven. Is there anybody at all dwelling in Heaven? Someone would say, Well, what are you talking about, Preacher? I'm talking about, now, beloved. Now, beloved. When are we going to be the sons of God. Now, beloved. Now, beloved. Do you mean to tell me that I'm already a son of God? Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory to God. Someone says, How did I get to be a son of God, Brother Pike? Said, To as many as believed to them gave He power to become the sons of God. And now, beloved, in that you believe, you are the sons of God. Somebody say praise the Lord. Ain't it good to talk about something now? Isn't it good to talk about something now. Hallelujah! There's got to come a now, beloved someday. Isn't that right? Somebody would say, Well, tomorrow, Brother Pike, and great revivals yesterday. No, there is no yesterday, there is no tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. You are only waiting for vanity. There is no tomorrow. God is not of tomorrow. God is of today. And this is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. So what do we say to that? That God created in six days but it was from evening until morning. And from evening until morning. And what we thought to be the morning star as to the bright shining light of that that came forth, that illumination from which Adam came, being the feminine part as to the spirit which is masculine, giving us a sign as Adam and Eve, that which we saw as to that bright light was the morning star, it turned out to be the evening star. Isn't that right? Sure it did. Because when man fell from that great light didn't the darkness come. And hasn't it been in the darkness ever since? And didn't the light come at Calvary? And didn't He say, in the morning I'll despise your image and out went the people? Out went the Jews from His presence. Isn't that right? And ye shall come from the East and the West, as to the Gentiles. Ye shall be translated into the Kingdom of God. The law and the prophets until John, since then the Kingdom. So they come from the East and the West, as to the Gentiles. They shall be translated into the marvelous Kingdom of God. But ye yourselves, having been the children in the Kingdom of David, shall be cast into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth when you see yourselves cast out of the Kingdom, and you see people from everywhere coming into the Kingdom. Is there anybody here that's in the Kingdom? Is there anybody here that has the Kingdom inside of them? Somebody says, Well, you can say the Kingdom of Heaven, but we're talking about something different. Well, what is the different thing you're talking about? And the Bible said He translated us into the marvelous Kingdom of God. Somebody says, Well, that's the Kingdom of God, what about the Kingdom of Heaven? It's one and the same. It's one and the same. There ain't no to heavens. Just one heaven, that's all, see? And then does that mean that I'm going to sit and wait until tomorrow so that the Kingdom of God can come? Are you listening to me? Am I going to wait until tomorrow so that the Kingdom can come? The Bible said give the more earnest heed to the things that you have heard lest at anytime you should let them slip. And be careful how that you hear them. See? Am I waiting until tomorrow for the Kingdom of God to come? Then what did Jesus mean that the law and the prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom has been preached and what did he mean when He said, And you press your way into the Kingdom? Wasn't it that there is a continual warfare between the body and the spirit? And what did he mean when He said, He that overcometh? Overcometh what? Could it be that He meant the spirit had to overcome the body, in that Paul said, there is something in the body that is contrary to what is in my spirit? O wretched man that I am in the body? What shall I do about it? It bringeth me into captivity. It's the body of sin and death. What can I do about this? I thank God that He delivered me, as through the body of Jesus. Him becoming that body of sin and death. And today the veil is rent and I am a spiritual being translated into the Kingdom of God in my spirit and now I am the second man Adam, the quickening spirit. Let's give the Lord a hand. Not a living soul, as a beast, but God, the second man Adam, as to the quickening spirit. See? So we could say hundreds and thousands of things about that should we go on. But just speaking now just in a simple terms, simple. Speaking of now, beloved. Now, beloved. Someone would say, Well, now, beloved. I would say, Brother Pike, what about you? Brother Taylor, what about you? And Brother Taylor and I could say, Well, now, beloved, we are Brother Pike and Brother Taylor. Then we could say, Wretched man that I am. Why are you Brother Pike and Brother Taylor? You know God despised that image that was born out of wedlock. And from your birth the spirit of foolishness has been there. And now the morning time has come, don't God despise your image? In that I said to the evening star, it was the morning star seemingly, but all of a sudden, it was from evening until morning, so it was the evening star and man went into darkness and that star withdrew. That great Shekinah light, as to the illumination of the human body which overshadowed, or illuminated, the woman, even as Mary. See? And it withdrew so it was evening time and your life fell into the bondage of that intellectual mind of darkness that came down from the tree of knowledge. And Lucifer, being the god of that darkness as being made the ruler of darkness, he is the intellectual champ of today, as to the Einsteins, and he is the mind of reflection. He is the one, see? So when we say, as we said some things to the brethren yesterday, might have repeated a few of them today, so many intervals as to the ministry. But when we look at it and we try to understand the spirit maketh us to understand all things. And when we look and we realize that Satan actually entered into the body of Adam, and yet Adam was called the son of God. The son of God. The lineage runs it back as to Adam, the son of God, which meant as to the time that Adam was illuminated, it was showing the son of God as a figure of Him to come, because that body was innocent. But it was only an illumination, as to that mind of the male that was on the female. And when it was shown as to types, as to Adam and Eve, Eve wandered away from that covering of that glory which had to do with that mind, and that they were naked because it showed that Christ had withdrawn. The day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die. And when the covering of that glory went away then shame came. Strange, but last night preaching the recovering of that Shekinah illumination, all of a sudden, Steve Floyd came down after the conversation of me preaching that message and then talking to the brethren a little bit, and he said, here is a cap. I give it to you because I know that you alone can wear it. Whereas, that was really something but it was really him ministering to Christ's Spirit, in that the Christ said, as to the cap and the name and the act of God, coming over in the night just as I finished. Really what he had to do with was the law, and his Dad, as in the past, has been a law man. And coming over, when he came over, I looked, I took the cap and when I looked at it, it said, I'm ashamed. I thought, now, there it is, see, we were shameful. We were in shame because Jesus spoke of it in the later times, Where is the garment that has been purged in the fire, that's passed through the fire? Where is this garment? Show me a garment that's been tried in the fire. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. His body, wasn't that the garment tried in the fire? Wasn't it Jesus that went down into hell for you? and that you are now without a garment, because God took your spirit out of your body because your body was a sinful thing as to a soul? and as to an animal? That's where souls belong, in the animal realm. Doesn't the beast soul go down while that of the righteous, as to the quickening spirit, doesn't that light go up? Isn't it translated into the Kingdom of God? So then, when we think of this, why? Who told you? And they said, without a garment? Who told you that? See? It was a matter of something that had come as to a knowledge that they never had before, and it was something that was degraded. And it was something that was shameful. And it was something that was unbecoming. And all of their goods, everything suddenly became shameful, contaminated. All of their goods became cursed. Everything became cursed, even to their body. Even the fields, as to the briars and thorns, and all of these things, all because of their believing. For the just shall live by faith. Be single minded, not double minded. See? Let your eye be single, your eye of understanding, let it be single for if your eye be single then you whole body is full of light. But if not you've gone to the tree of darkness and the tree of knowledge and now you body is darkness, and how great is that darkness, as to that ignorance that Paul said was in you. Whereas, you'll never comprehend the light, because darkness cannot comprehend light. Light eradicates darkness. So you're blinded by the ignorance that is within you, but this is the condemnation that has come into the world that light has now come and ye are under condemnation because you do not love the light. That is to say understanding of righteousness. But you love the darkness, as to make allowance for your corruption and your evil doings because your deeds, your deeds, what you do in body, is evil. As to the lust of the senses, as to the separation, separating yourself sensually by your human senses, making you the bondschild, as to the beggarly elements of the world because you are dependent upon these elements for survival and that is because you are the serpent and you are on your belly, which is the sons of Satan. But, see? With that which is trapped, as to the life within the worm (Thy worm, Jacob, He said.) With the life within the worm there comes Calvary. There come the rent veil. There comes a time when this worm has to release, as what we call the butterfly, or the heavenly creature. And that creature is not on its belly. And it goes through the metamorphosis of Calvary and there we are free from the worm. So then, we've been divided asunder as He made in Himself twain. One, as to the fallen, as to the image of the serpent, to be lifted up as the wilderness, the serpent, and everyone that looks upon Him evil spirits cannot come and penetrate for He is the brazen One. That life has passed on to us. He was tried in the fire. Now we have the garments of righteousness, and we are the resurrected one. And my! at the hundreds of thousands of things that could come forth and the many thousands of things that have already come forth that we have said of that that has shown just about that part right there. So when we think of this we realize that that star that was the bright shiny star thus became the Evening Star because life was going down. The sentence of death was in the body of Adam now, as to the feminine because she had lost her head, which was Christ, the masculine, that great Spirit of light from which He emanated, even as Eve being taken out of Adam during the moment of darkness. So it is at Calvary, as to Moses in the cleft of the rock. Now, so when we think about this we realize that something has taken place that we don't see in the natural. It has to be something heavenly revealed to us, because you cannot obtain unto this through education. Nor can you obtain unto this through sight. Paul went blind when he looked at the great light. So you can't see it and you understanding, eyes of understanding being blinded, even as Paul was blinded. See, your eyes of understanding being blinded you don't comprehend the heights and depths and the width of this great, wonderful masterful mind of Christ Jesus. Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus who had the mind of God, the image of God, he didn't think it was robbery to be God. That's what it amounted to. Have this mind in you. Have this mind in you to think it not robbery to be equal with God. For who hath made me equal with God? I, myself, or did He made me equal with God. As Christ Jesus is, so am I in Him. Or, that is to say, whatever Christ Jesus is that was God making me to be that, and that's what I am today. I am that today. Someone would say, Brother Pike, aren't you working toward that? Oh, no. We're talking about now, beloved. See? Am I that already? How could I be anything else? The Bible said God hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Is there any sanctified folks? Well, does that mean that you are testifying to perfection? that you are perfect? Oh, no, somebody said, there is nobody perfect. Well, how did it happen? Let's give the Lord a hand. I'll take the hypocrite by surprise. My! All of a sudden they've got a surprise. There's some perfect folks around. Job was a perfect man. This perfection is manifested in your body. Be ye therefore perfect. Somebody says, Well, that shows it is to come. Oh, no, that shows you already have this heavenly treasure in your earthen vessel and God has perfected your inner man and now your making manifest in your outer man to save yourself from this untoward generation. Or making this heavenly treasure manifest in your mortal genes. That's your job, but your already got the heavenly treasure, and the Christ, as to the Spirit. That's the only thing that is life. There is no life in the natural. The body profiteth nothing. That means the body is dead and there is no sin to the body. All sin is without the body. So there is no sin to the body, in that God killed the body because He was displeased with it. Now, somebody would say, Well, the sin is in the spirit. That's true. But there is no sin in your spirit because you've been born of God and the Spirit of God is interwoven with you, as that safe guard in the garment, and that is light and darkness cannot get near your spirit because darkness and light hath no fellowship and the law folded up and laid away then that your spirit is sealed unto the day of the change of the body to the redemption, which body has already been redeemed by His blood. And we're learning about that through the transformation of the mind to comprehend because now, beloved, you are already sons and you are already Gods. Ye are gods but you die like men because we've never gone through the fullness of the transformation to get the knowledge. Dying from the lack of knowledge. To get the knowledge of who we are and what we are and make that change, as to faith in that knowledge. Let's give the Lord another hand. (Begin tape one, side two.) Is anybody making any effort toward that knowledge? Is anybody getting any of that knowledge? Are you beginning to think that maybe what we're saying is true? Somebody say hallelujah! Glory to God. And to as many as believed. Do you believe? Gave He the power to become the sons of God, even as many as believe on His name. So, now, beloved. We're talking about now, see? Are you then a son of God. Peter said so. John said so. God is a spirit. As long as I'm in this tabernacle of flesh, that is to say, I'm a son of the Spirit. I'm a spirit. And does the body have any life? No. Is it a tabernacle? Yes. Is it a mold? Yes. But if that spirit left that mold through the body of Jesus, as to the sacrifice, and that spirit was interwoven with that Christ, and that Christ went away and God picked up that body through the change and set it at His right hand as a vesture dipped in blood, and then that spirit that reentered into the new form that is sitting at the right hand of God, does that spell perfection? Then who are you? Are you the fallen one, as delivered for our offenses, as to the first birth and the first man Adam? But then are you the resurrected One, as in a new form as the second man Adam? If not how could you be bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh? Didn't the Bible say that Jesus, the second man Adam, was made a quickening spirit? Have we got any quickening spirits? Sure we have. This life to be made manifest within our mortal genes, as to the eradication of the beast and the weakness of the flesh. Jesus said, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. So then, the light withdrew. It was the daystar even as the sun withdrawing, and from evening until morning thus it was the first day. The act of creation, and on, and finally came the day of His rest. And this is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. And it is said, and because these people murmured against the ministry of Moses that God sware in His wrath that they shall not enter into My rest. Therefore, Paul saying, and since they to whom the promise was made didn't enter into it, therefore there remaineth a rest of God's people. And ye be ware and take these things as an admonishing, as to the admonition of these that failed to enter in and fear lest you come short of entering into that rest which still remains as God's rest which brings us to Calvary and the rent veil and the beginning of the church ages, which is God's one eternal day, the day of His rest. And when Jesus finished all the works, God finished all the works, at Calvary when He finished all the works saying, I am the works, and then told us just to believe. Nothing to do but just believe. Finishing all of the works then came the rent veil as to the ark of the covenant, or the day of the Lord, that one eternal day that has always been before Calvary, revealed to human beings at Calvary and then reaching on over passed the tribulation, as to the celestial. So it's very obvious as to that day, the day of God's rest, He had finished. He said, It is finished. And it was finished. So, this is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. See? So then, have we entered into the Sabbath? Then if we've entered into the Sabbath isn't that God's rest? Didn't He said he that will not do his own thing on My Sabbath? That is, don't be found in that image that I despise as the works of mankind and the religious ritualistics. Don't be found in the endeavors, as to your efforts to project your self and your ministry and your way of life in which you think, as to who you are, and your position. Don't get in my way. On the Sabbath that body is dead. It's buried. It's gone and your spirit has entered into heaven, and the only body you have is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ sitting at the right hand of the Father. And what you could not perform in that body of the beast, it has now been fulfilled in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and as the spirit translated into the Kingdom, as to the spirit of Christ, and now you are sealed forever and now you are eternally in your rest. Have you entered into your rest? He that has entered into His rest has ceased from his own works. If he has ceased from the works, as the things and the ritualistics of the Jews, or the formalities of the Catholics, or whatever the works of today might be, then how did we get righteousness? Through faith. Didn't need no works. Let's give the Lord another hand. Blessed is the man unto whom God imputeth faith for righteousness. Blessed is the man that God doth not require works of to have salvation. Shall come to pass that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Blessed is the man unto whom God will not impute sin. Is that right? So then, we could go on and go on, but many things we have said you understand. So the light went out, but when Jesus Christ came there was the beginning of the creation of God, and there was the new blood seed. And My! I could say a lot about these things tonight. But there is was, the new body resurrected in another image. Died in the Jewish perspective, resurrected in the spiritual Jew perspective, and today it is Christ. He is with us in our heart. I will return again. The world won't see me, but you will, as to your eyes of understanding comprehending the height, the depth, the width and the length through the preaching down through the church ages. And when I preach these things, or say these things, or tutor these few things up here, I can tell you, beloved, we are barely, barely, barely scratching the surface. And if you don't believe that get with some of the brethren, that sometimes we go an hour, three hours, and they'll tell you. But I try to get enough over to you to make you hungry and to make you realize what we are saying. So in the morning I will despise your image. And where is the morning? Christ is the dawning of that daystar on the inside, and if there is no dawning, as to Christ within you, that hope of that great radius of glory that Jesus was changed into on the mountain, then you are none of His. You are still covering with a covering but not of Him, and your covering is an intellectual satisfaction of doing your own thing and you are covered with that spirit of darkness which is Lucifer, that intellectual mind. See? But we're not covered with the intellectual, as to the darkness, but we are covered with the light which is understanding as to our light we are covered with it. My! How many revelational things would have to be brought out right there. So then, where is the bright and the morning star? Where is this great star? The light is penetrating seven-fold, breaking through that intellectual veil of darkness, that life that is within you, and all of a sudden, there it is. There comes the Sabbath. There comes a day of the Lord. There comes the church ages. There comes this age that we're living in, and there is Christ, the great light. There is Christ, the great light. Then comes your generation and here you are at your Calvary. And all of a sudden here it is a seven-fold light coming to you at the end to make the change to completely eradicate the veil, to come to the realization that that veil of flesh, that body, that beast in which all of the infiltration dwelt, that has been eradicated. It is gone and now you body was purchased by the blood and today you are one with Christ, and under the blood, as to the blood dipped vesture that will return when the valley runs with blood when all of the people will come against you, as to the bonds child. See, in bondage to the beggarly elements of the world, by the human senses, as to survive. So then, that means that now morning has come. And does God despise the image? The old raven went out to feed on corruption. All flesh has corrupted its was before God. But the dove, it went away and got that leaf from the tree of life, as to the Holy Spirit, returned and came right back into the ark, as to this body. Right back into it to bring it to the change, or to secure us on the inside with the seal. See? And so many things need to be said as to detail. But, anyway, we see him come back. Then we see Christ. We see Him, as to that seventh month. And we see the tenth day, and we see the atonement and we see the high priest going in with blood. And many things that we have to say. And going in for the atonement. And when he went in if he came out quickly all was well. If he didn't everything was wrong. The wrath of God was upon them. And, sure enough, Christ ascended into glory. He came straight back into the ark, into our heart, and He brought that leaf of life, as to the word of the tongue, tongues of fire. And He entered into our heart. And when He did the blood changed, and it is now the blood of the quickening; not by use of the instrument, as to the (?), or the matrix, but it was the quicken from Almighty God that had recreated, as to a blood cell and it was no more, as to the blood cell of (?) but as a vision I saw when the cloud came down and the pillar of fire, as to the fire that left the cloud. And when it came down, as over the body, as to say the tabernacle, then all of a sudden, it was so great, as to the light round about, because there are three stages of the fire. There's heat and the light and when it came down, as to light, it indicated revelation, or the understanding of the great day of His wrath and then it entered into the body. When it entered into the body it was like when I saw it entering in when I spoke of the bridge and the bridge was no more. So then, when it entered into the body it indicated it would come forth, as to a dispensing as a revelational light and not as a natural thing to natural people in a pillar of fire where they'd be looking at something natural. Which meant the consummation, as to the blood. Baptism of Holy Ghost fire. These kind of things. If we had time to get a little preaching in on the doctrine of baptism. But, anyway, water, fire and blood. Or water, blood and spirit. Water, fire and blood being one and the same. So then, that means that we have come to a new day. We are a new creature, old things have passed away. We are in the eternal day. Therefore when Joshua crossed the Jordan there was no more night. Or no more sleep. We have control over the moon realm, as to the body. That mind that's a reflector, which was Satan. To stand still, Joshua said, in the Valley of Ajalon. And we have control over the sun, which is the mind of Christ, to say it over Gibeon. And then the one day that science picks up on the computers. Can't erase it. Can't fill it. Can't find nothing except that one day back through history, which proves it actually happened. So then, we've entered into that day. We've cross over the Jordan. Many hundreds of things that would have to be said as to the William Branham ministry, or the past ministers of today, as specially to the denominational side of it. See? And as to the Charismatic side of it. See? And bringing it to this, then where are we today? Where are we today. Hundreds and thousands of things must be said, for great is the mystery of godliness. So then, in this there are brethren here that we have shared hundreds and thousands of things with, and a few things with this group of brethren and a few things with that group of brethren. And this has a little bit, and these have a little bit, and these have a little bit. And like it was in the days of Solomon when wisdom built the temple. That from everywhere where they have made these things, as to part of the building, it has to come. They could not lift up anything, as to an instrument, on this wonderful temple of God, the temple of whom ye are, the lively stones of that city, and they could not use any instrument that would make a noise. Be still. Study to be quiet; know that I am God. See? And with that when he went to put the temple together already the stones had to be cut to fit way over here in this part of the country, and that part of the country, and this nationality, and this__ And all symbolic. You just have to unveil it. And it's all put together. All cut out, and then when it's brought then the stones will be discerned as to which goes where, as to the spiritual thing. And then they will come, as to the great light, as Paul, the wise master builder, even Christ the one that built that city that Abraham searched for with foundations. Apostolic foundations. See? And when it's all put together, then Paul being Christ up and to the third heaven. Which we'd like to say a lot about the heavens. And with that what do we find? We find the capstoning and the city built. And the we suddenly realize that they've all brought the stones together. And it was a day of peace. Not as of a war age. That is to say, the eagle age of America, or the time of David's slaying and the blood. Though he gathered much gold and silver he could not build the temple. Too much blood on his hands. Jesus had to lay it aside because His vesture was dipped in blood, because He's the great White Horse rider that made war to take away, and to turn the valley to blood with all nations. But Christ, as to that dove like, the following as to the nation coming in as of the millenium and the peace, that Christ entering into your heart, that dove that was over Jesus' head at the baptism, that God, that wonderful Spirit of Christ that's on the inside, He's building the temple through the revelational thing of the wisdom of Almighty God. And so He's binding the stones together to bring them up into Christ whom the world doth not see. But through eyes of understanding we see. Right down at the end time. So let me say this little thought right here. I wasn't going to get into so many things, as to introduce them cause I like to take one thing and elaborate on enough until you can comprehend it. Especially for the little ones. But when Satan, in the beginning, as a great might light of the equality of Almighty God__ That is to say, God having made a reflector to reflect Himself, he had to reflect this great light so that in the reflection of this great light he could communicate with the angels because angels are also light. But even angels as light in the presence of God, the great light, it could not be possible that God could get near them, nor speak to them, because He's so great that when He comes forth the heavens fade away, the earth fades away, the angels fell, what fade away, they fell from heaven. Only the angelic beings that are sanctified through Jesus Christ, as to His atonement, will survive. Someone would say, But, Brother Pike, angels don't sin. Well, why is it the Bible said, Even His angels were not clean in His sight. Let's give the Lord a hand. So a third part of heaven was cast out. And that means that God had to look at them through this wonderful light of reflection. That is to say, as they looked to Him. And at that time Lucifer was made upright. There was nothing wrong with him. All of his pipes were perfect, as is said, and he was the most beautiful tree in the garden. He was the most beautiful tree in the garden. And so then, when we see the weakness of woman, as to the tree, as to the weakness of that of the serpent, or that of Satan, and then we see the man, as to the reflection of that mind and illumination, seeing that tree of life, and we see the man illuminated with the tree of life, as to the word of understanding and not in the transgression. And then we see the woman. She is covered with another covering, and that is still an angel which is a light, but a dark light, in that when Satan saw His radiance, realized his greatness, and all of the angels looking in that direction, and some worshipping and admiring Him, and he thought, I'm like God, he thought. And he thought that he would make his nest among the stars. And he would enter into the side of the mountain and he would put his throne there, that he would be like unto God. That is, they would worship him. The very second his thoughts reflected then that meant the reflection was revealed, as to him not being the light but only a reflection of the intellectual reflection of that great wonderful Word of Spirit. And immediately he was dark. The light withdrew because God, as to the light, could not have fellowship with him, or look on him, because that was iniquity. Transgression. One place, jot or tittle, your guilty of all. When that light went out he was automatically the ruler of the darkness. It was revealed to him then that he was the intellectual head of the grace, as to the admiration of even those angelic beings because he was the ruler of intellectual education, or as better said today, the house of prostitution. That's where it started. That's where it's ending. So then, the great light, as God, the understanding, the Word as Spirit and life, Adam had it because he was not in the transgression, as being a figure of Him to come He could not be any other way. But when he listened to Eve, the body as being one, then it was very, very outstanding to where you could see through that if you look at it through the eyes of Christ that it was the woman that was departing from the male. Christ being the male, and Adam called the son of God because it was the illumination. That was the son of God, the quickening Spirit that was with God before the world ever was, and made before anything else was made. And that it was He that had come back at Calvary as that great light, becoming the Evening Star because of everything falling into darkness as to Satan taking Adam, and Adam being the son of the morning reflecting that great light was made to be the body of the Lord Jesus that he might be one with God, but only as a symbolic, a figure. And was to be the body of Satan, as in Adam all die. Though Eve is the mother of all, it's in Adam that all die because he is the power and authority. See? And in that then it becomes the evening light and the darkness overpowers. And the illumination of that figure was gone, as to a living soul, back to the beast. But when Christ came and that Spirit that perfected everything in the body of Jesus and gave the body of Jesus, as to the atonement to separate our bodies from our spirit, then as to great is the mystery all of a sudden this is made known then that Christ's Spirit was the fulfillment of the law and that amend, made amends, delivered for our transgressions. Made amends for what we had done and now that body was gone, smitten at Calvary, and now we're the resurrected body of the Lord Jesus, raised up in another form, and that Spirit of Christ is the fulfillment of righteousness within us. As Paul said, in the revelation, being the overseer of the Gentile Church, our thoughts being the means while accusing, or else excusing one another. The other night we explained that and somebody was really rejoicing because a number said, I've always wondered about this Scripture. Now, so then, the Lord seeing this brought it the great symbolics so there is the beginning of the creation of God. Someone said, I thought Adam was the beginning of the creation of God. Oh, no, Adam was not the beginning of the creation of God. Who then was the beginning of the creation of God? Christ said, Father, restore unto me the joys I had with Thee before the foundation of the world. And God said to Job, Where were you when I laid the cornerstone of the earth. Or that is, He was before all things. All things are by Him. They are for Him, and for His pleasure. They were made and without Him there was nothing made that was made. He sanctified the angels. He brought the angels forth and He brought all of this and He made it in the plan, as to His wonderful mind as before the world ever way, and it is given to us, as in the thoughts, the foreknowledge, elect as unto grace. And ye are elected, as to foreknowledge, and the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. And then when Calvary came the veil was rent and it was revealed to you what you always have been, as the equality of God. So then, when the veil was rent the mind was put in you, like a baby and the conception. And down through the church ages you are developed in this mind to comprehend that you are the body of Almighty God, as to pass through that door that is over in the book of Revelation the fourth chapter to go up, as to the rapture before the tribulation period sets in. So then, what am I saying? There are so many things I need to say. About a thousand, two thousand things more to put together, as to pieces, to make it to where it makes sense. But knowing it's hot and I knowing I have a short time. And even at a short time it takes quite a little bit. But to you that's a long time. To me and God it is so fragmental in that just eighty days to talk about the law and the ritualistics, as to some of those things, see, with Moses. So then, the morning star. That was the beginning of the creation of God. Jesus was the beginning. He was the beginning. And He said, I came from heaven. You came from the dust; I didn't come from the dust. I'm the beginning of the creation of God. I came from heaven. Did Adam come from heaven? No. Adam came from the dust. Those that are the descendants of Adam are they the descendants of the Lord Jesus Christ? No, they are the sons of the devil. But then, as in Adam all die, as to the enemy yet in Christ all made alive. Those that belong to Christ, are they the sons of the devil? No. They're sons of the Spirit and Christ being the beginning of the creation of God, even the Melchizedek of God and Jesus made a priesthood like unto that, in that that body became perfectly one with the Melchizedek, even the Christ. And so then, Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God coming from heaven. And we are thus its posterity. Who shall declare my posterity. He was cut off. So then, we are His posterity. Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. How? Because it's revealed to us what we were in the beginning. Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. Always been that way. Now it's revealed to us, as the unveiled, or the rent veil, to be preached to us to comprehend the height, depth, length and width, and many hundreds of things we have to say to bring out just this little bit that we're trying to say here. So, Satan the ruler of the darkness trying to get back into the light, as to the light of the blood on the seat of atonement, as in the beginning of the world. Have to explain that and why, see. And Satan took advantage of that grace by entering into the body of mankind, of that grace, that grace that was given to them until they could recover from their fall into intellectual darkness. Is there then a racial dispute? Nothing at all like that except among the ignorant, and among the foolish, and them that are fools. Or the unlearned that has not yet learned that they are elect. Or is there an international dispute, as to nationality? fighting one with another, as for conquest to be the ruler, as one ruling over each other? Isn't that the devil? Or is it a matter of riches, power, esteem of people that are in the upper echelon, or entertainers, or some great something of strong spirit, forceful, as to educational abilities? No. We are children of light, as from the beginning. And we are only allegoric in the places that He has put us for these stones, as to be cut, symbolically made, or brought. See? And to be revealed, as to those which are light and those which are darkness. So then, we are children of light. And this great light now is made known to us. And those that are children of light shall comprehend this light, so there is no color involved. Light hath all colors, and in light there are all colors so then in God all these things emanated from God, the Light. And He loves us all as light, and uses us allegorically, but we are sons and children of the light. And we have nothing to do with the flesh, as to the old serpent. Irregardless to what kind of color he is he is still on his belly and he's the old serpent. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody say hallelujah! All right. Let's stand together. There are so many, many, many things that we need to say. But, now, beloved, are ye the children of light. Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. Now, beloved, it is revealed to you through these tutorings, and transformation of mind to comprehend to your bodily redemption for possession. Now spiritually are ye already the sons of the great Father of spirits. And we are going through the change to eradicate the mind of infiltration because the body is the woman and she must be purged but she is not to be hurt. And God came in the body as the form of a woman, as to the feminine, to go through all the suffering that she which you and I unbeknowing having never learned. Eve knew nothing. Where there is no knowledge sin is not imputed. So then, we've been freed through Christ by His blood. Saved us while we were yet in our sins and now here we are in the end of the world to be revealed to that we are the very body of the Spirit, or the Word made flesh. Or we are the very bride of Almighty God, as to Jesus Christ. My! what we would have to say to be able to say anything. Let's sing the little choruses together. Do you believe? All things are possible to them that believe. Why is all things possible to them that believe? Because they are the body of God and they are Christ. And He controls the world, even to commanding the Father. Command thou me concerning the works of my hands. And thus that flesh has become one with the spirit to speak, and when that body speaks the spirit has submitted itself one hundred percent to that body. Or that body has submitted itself one hundred percent to that spirit that He and His Father are one. Are we going to do that as to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man to the full reward. Or are we just going to be as it would be, children. Let us go on, beloved, to the perfection. He that overcometh, that is the flesh, shall sit down in heaven, and sit down in the throne, which is heaven, as in the spirit, with Almighty God to rule with a rod of iron. So then when we come to these things what can we say but amen. See? And now it is the hour of the revealed. What will that be? The change. Forget about rapture. There is no word like that, teachings. See? I tell you again, the Bible says that we will come to a change. For the dead in Christ shall rise first, and we which are alive and remain shall be changed, and then the rapture, for the word rapture means caught up. So you've got to be something that belongs to God, and become the changed figure like Jesus was on the mountain before you are ever going anywhere. So forget about that thing of the rapture, just setting around waiting to lose your soul. Get in and do what you're suppose to do in saving yourself from this untoward generation by believing the Word of God, putting down that carnal mind and transformating, as in your mind. Get that translation of new birth, as of your spirit into Christ's Spirit, as to the life, our life hid within Christ, that when He returns we'll return with Him. See, get into that before it's too late. Be born again. Enough reflection, as to the light so that you have a chance to come in our of the darkness to hear. Don't just be a reflector and go back out into the darkness, as to the wallowing in the mire after you've been washed, to the lapping of the vomit after you've been washed. See? So if you are already in the light as He is in the light, walk in the light as He is in the light. Have fellowship. Ye are the light of the world, so let your light shine, as to your good works, that men around the world may see your works of Christ, your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven. Come out of the darkness to you because they are the elect looking for the light. See? Then what are we saying? I'm saying, Now, beloved. Now, beloved, that time is...(Begin tape two, side one.) ....in your right sonship, as to your law of liberty, as to believing unto righteousness by Christ on the inside of you, as to a finished work. And that thing disputing, as to say the law, condemnation and death, killing your faith because you transgressed the law. To you there is no law, see? And when we come to this then let us love one another, as to one mind, and praise and give God the glory. And remember, what we do we do unto others as unto Christ. And what we fail to do we fail to do as unto Christ. Give to the poor, you lend unto Christ. I want to pay the Lord's debt. So when we come to this let's remember the veil is rent. As He is so are we and that body is purged; it's gone. We go through all kind of problems. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but that Christ__ Through Him we are resurrected, as raised for our justifications and now we're justified, sanctified, glorified, perfected forever by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus at Calvary. One man's sins. One man's righteousness. One man's sin, all unto sin and death. One man's righteousness, all are unto righteousness and life. So then, let's realize that and let's believe because you can be cast down in that mind that wars, as to that in the flesh, and depressed by fallen angels, as to drawing all of the life out you. See? One minute you could be like that, and somebody say something about the Word, or you just think about the Word, and all of a sudden, It inspires you. And you say, Wait a minute, the Word says__ I believe. And then that second you're no longer in the derogative mind. You're in the mind of Christ. You are no more asleep, but awake. That quick. Just believing. Now, beloved, ye have faith. As many as believe to them gave He power, even the Word of God. For the Word of God is the power, the Bible says. It's spirit and life. So then, when we think, as to the differentiation, when we think in the direction of Christ, and all of a sudden we believe. And the Word says, Now, beloved, I've given you all things that pertain unto life. And you say, Wait a minute. My God! Why am I cast down? If I've got a bill to pay there's the answer. Christ is the answer. If I need something to keep my wife from going out and throwing her life away just to cut me to my heart, there it is. All things that pertain unto life. Or to protect me and my husband, there it is. If I need an income, there it is. If I need eternal life, there it is. If I need life and health in this body, there it is. If I need peace and joy and righteousness, there it is. To rejoice forevermore, ye that dwell in heaven. And just that quick, believing and you're on the right place, and out of that, that's off limits. See? And you're right back where you were and strong like a lion. And whatever you believe say it, declare it, believe it, bring it to pass cause whatever you say that's the way it will be. The other day when I was over in the Bahamas we were standing there by the little bar where Betty prepares breakfast, and I was there, Cynthia was there and I believe David Paul was there. Betty was there. Whoever, maybe Gracie. And I was standing there and I had just got a telephone report that there was a hurricane moving in on the island over there where Rick was. And it concerned me, as flesh and blood. It concerned me as my natural son. And I thought, My, that can be deadly. But I started to pray, you know, and I said, Lord, it's not just my son naturally but I've preached to those people over there. Spiritual followers and children. And those people over there some of them don't know their right hand from their left, as we would say, and I'm concerned about them. And I don't want that thing it hit any island. Not that island, nor any other island. What must I do? And it was just like something just shoooo. Like that, and it said, Say what you will and that's the way it will be! I said, My God! It just shook me. And I said, Hurricane you don't have any power. You turn and you go back to sea and I don't want you to do nothing. What happened according to the report? Somebody say hallelujah! Say what you will, said, that's the way it'll be. As to the bridge when the voice spoke, the bridge is gone. Many, many things as to whatever you want, I'll give you the desires of your heart. Somebody say hallelujah! Let's sing a little chorus together. I'm speaking of now, beloved. (Singing) Can you sing it with me? Sing it like this now. (Singing) Can you sing it with me? (Singing) Let's sing it like this now, can we? (Singing) Sing it with me, now. (Singing) Sing it with me now. (Singing) Have you got peace. Do you believe it is now, beloved? Do you believe it's now. Are you already sons of God? Have you attained all things through Christ Jesus? Is your enemies at peace with Him? and with you? Have you passed from death unto life? Will you ever come into condemnation? Are you rejoicing in all things forevermore? We're talking about now, beloved. Sing it one more time with me. (Singing) Just one more time. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Do you love the Lord? I believe that you do. I believe that you believe the message. I believe what the message says. I believe the hour is here of that change. It's here and the translation is taking place. Somebody said, Rapture. Forget about that right now, okay? Now in the time of that change and the translation. And the Bible said, And Enoch walked with God for three hundred years and then he was not for God took him, and he went away in a whirlwind. Now. He just walked with God. In the beginning was the Word and the Word still is God. Somebody say hallelujah! The same to every generation, yesterday, today and forever. Can you say hallelujah? God loves you all the time. It's peace on earth. It's good will toward man everyday of the week. And with you there is no time. No time. There was a time to be born and a time to die. So you were born and you died. Let's give the Lord a hand. Reckon yourselves then to be dead by the body of Jesus Christ and alive forevermore. Where then is tomorrow? And where then is yesterday? If there is no yesterday there is no sin for the Bible says there is no remembrance of former things. Don't care nothing about yesterday. Too many heartaches. And as to the future, as to tomorrow, when Joshua crossed the Jordan there wasn't no tomorrow. Let's give the Lord a hand. Forever. This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us sing that song. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Singing) Let's lift up our hands and sing. (Singing) People upon whom the ends of the world have come. (Singing) In the fullness of time God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law and thus time was fulfilled and the church ages came in and the world was over. Four eighty-three and then no more. And then the church ages. Before the last seven then comes the capstone, as to finish the prophecy of Daniel. Where are you, my beloved? Do you dwell in Heaven? Do you dwell in Heaven? Can you hear the cooing of the turtle dove? The poppies show their faces, Solomon says, as he made love to God. And the little poppies show their face, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land, even the turtle dove. And it's calling to it's mate. Springtime, as to the resurrection is here. Bring again the springtime of my heart. Bring again the youth and the happiness, and the strength and the radiance, and the power and the life I one time knew. Bring again the springtime. Springtime in heaven. Always springtime in Heaven where the flowers are blooming rich and rare. Springtime in Heaven, springtime in Heaven. There is never any winter there. Let's sing again. (Singing) While we're singing this last little chorus here, I'm going to ask Billy Kirk to come up if he will. And while Billy's coming let's consider the Lord. Let's examine ourselves, see if we be in the faith. The translation is taking place. Do you believe that? Sure. What is the translation? It's the translation of your spirit, translated into the Spirit of Christ. The law and the prophets until John. Since that time the Kingdom has been here. The Kingdom has been preached. Men press their way, as to the inner spirit, into the Kingdom of God. Thy will be done now in the body, on the earth as in Heaven. Thy Kingdom has come. Now then, with this the transformation of the mind. Still the translation. Be therefore transformed by the renewing of your mind. Transformated. Can you do that? Even Satan appears in Heaven. How? Because even Satan, a fallen angel, a light, by grace transforms himself into an angel of light and appears in the spirit. As in Heaven. And then the power to transfigurate, or transfigure your body, even as Jesus did on the mountain, appearing in glory to those that watched. The power to transfigure your body. Translation of your spirit. Transformation of your mind. Transformation of the soul, that is. Transfiguration for the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Does that sound like a rapture? Does that sound like a rapture? What is the transfiguration? It was on the mountain of transfiguration. I've been there and preached. What is the transfiguration? It's the change of the body where Jesus was transfigured, being the church, after He'd perfected everything in your behalf and then died so you wouldn't have to go by the way of the grave. Shall you look for the living among the dead? As to those that lay down to sleep, do they go to the graveyard? Should they? Are they then buried with the dead? Oh, no. It's just a thing of explanation, as shall we all sleep. So then, what is the translation? Somebody said, the rapture. I keep telling you the rapture don't take place, as to the catching up, until after the translation. Somebody say hallelujah! We that remain and are alive are changed. Transfigured, that is. We are changed, and then raptured, or caught up in the air as He appears. So shall we ever be with the Lord. Somebody say shut up, or amen. Somebody ought to have the backbone to say, Shut up, preacher, you don't know what you're talking about. Or they ought to say, My God! Amen. How close are we to the finishing of this great wonderful work that has been down through the church ages as a thief coming in the night for them that He loves. And the work is almost finished. It was finished at Calvary and we're just comprehending it. Somebody say hallelujah! Once again, let's sing this together. (Singing) There are some things going on right now. Some things going on, even with this covenant thing that you have gotten your self into, men and women alike, as to family, and there are some things that's going on that I am persuaded to believe fully that you've not seen it. I've talked to a few of them about a little of it and evidently they had not seen, but their eyes came open. But there are things about it. Are you watching the money? Are you watching the cooperation? Are you watching the church and the grounds? Are you watching each other? Or are you watching for the Lord Jesus? Are you looking at Christ? Have you got your eyes of understanding turned on Heaven, and to the revelation in the Spirit? Lift up your head. That's where your eyes will go. See? For your redemption draweth nigh. What is the redemption, as to the body? As to the body? And who was the body? It was you. Who brought death? It was you. Who redeemed the body? It was a man. You. And who changed the body? And who paid the price for the body? It is you. Oh, no, somebody says. Oh, yes. You told me you were the body of the Lord Jesus Christ members in particular. Aren't you the just suffering for the unjust while they frolic? You have to just step out of all the frolics and be dead to the world. Aren't you the dead to the world? But aren't they the dead to our world? Somebody say hallelujah! And the last shall be first, and the first shall be last. And when Jacob wrestled with Esau, as to the birthright at the brook Peniel, didn't he go our and see the man's face as that of an angel, or of God? Somebody say hallelujah. The last being first, and the first being last. All right. We're going to sing that chorus and let Richard come. (Singing) Day and night. (Singing) I'll cast down imagination. I'll praise Him. And I'll being into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ every thought that it will not be me living but Christ living within me. And the brightness of that light will eradicate the infiltration of that knowledge that comes from the fallen angel, even Lucifer. So then, where are we tonight? Somebody says, Brother Pike, I believe. If I keep on believing I'm going to get into Heaven and I can say, Hallelujah! Glory to God! Come up hither for it's Heaven. It's heaven indeed. And it's heaven indeed, and I'm enjoying it up here in heaven and I'd like to have you up here with me. Come on up; the door is open. Somebody say hallelujah! And in a little while it's going to be closed and all of them that's waiting for it to open is going to realize it was open all the time and that they missed it. And now it's closed and we're already on the inside and when they come back, come back after searching for the oil they're going to find out we're gone. Lift your hands up and love the Lord. (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord