To Be Carnal Minded Is Death

Do you love the Lord? God is good. You can be seated. Now, this morning I'm going to just make a little reference to the Word, talk about the Word. I got up here real early the other night and I__ And sometimes it would be better, perhaps, if I did get up here and just get to the Word and kind of keep your minds from a lot of other things. We got to the place to where we finally got an entertainment and just finally left the Word of God. So many churches have done that. Brother Branham kind of changed that thing around in his day and he just kind of got to the Word, and the followers still they just might have a song and get into the Word, or play tapes, or whatever they do. I always like to worship. I like to see people clap their hands and sing and praise the Lord, but when it gets to be stardom and it gets to be people that are just wanting to project personality, they've just got talents that they want to put out there I kind of lose interest in it. And when it just get to be routine to where they come and just clap their hands and sing and get all jubilant, you know, and when the Word of God comes there is no jubilance; no hunger, no thirst. They're ready to go home, and when they do come back they really don't have anything, as to inwardly speaking there is really nothing there. They didn't get anything from the services and they just some back with the same old routine. So I just get tired of that. I get wore out with that and I just try to push on around with the Word. All during the day it should be that we should be mediating in the things of God, and we should be studying the Bible, where and whenever we can. And our mind,if we're not studying the Bible we should be in our minds in a deep study in the Word of God constantly, because this is what is important: the Word of God. Not clapping your hands, and not singing, and not projecting your talent, nor trying to be a minister, or me getting up here being a preacher. All of that has nothing to do with anything. Not anything. The Word of God is what it's all about. The Word of God. There is thousands upon thousands of preachers in the world today, and though they are great personalities in the earth and you can be as big as you want to. It depends on how much you want to compromise. The world loves its own and you can just__ There is no end to it if you want start. You can be anything you want to, but the thing is, when you get through with all of it you just fold it up, lay it away, it didn't mean nothing. It ain't nothing. Their personality, their being, they're just going to be good for to through in a hole and the worms will eat them. But the Word of God was in the beginning and the Word of God is the thing that will be in the end. And the Word of God is given to you to change you from a human being into the Word of God. That is from your beastly form into God. And this Word is spirit and it is life, and if you don't get the Word of God you don't get anything. Going to college doesn't mean anything in the world. You could go to every college that there is, it doesn't mean a thing. When you get out you will be just as dumb as you were when you went in. And you can go to every hospital that you want to go to, but when you get out__ If you've got cancer when you go in you'll have cancer when you come out, as far as going into the hospital. But there has got to be something, even in school, or college that is a word of tutoring, a word of understanding, and you don't go there to get the college, nor to take the college home with you, nor to homestead. You don't go there to see the teachers. You don't go there, even though I'm afraid this is what it's gotten into, is the teachers and the women and the men are all just a mess. That's all it is, and you go to college now just so you can look around and have somebody to pal around with, you know, and turn your life into something like a bunch of dogs, or animals. But that wasn't the purpose of it. The purpose was to indoctrinate you with a knowledge, which knowledge is really corrupt in the long run and that's what is causing all of the old prostitution and all the problems of the government, so called, of today. But at any rate there's suppose to be a purpose and that is the indoctrination. It's the same way in the hospital. You're suppose to go there, not because somebody has a doctorate. Not to go around saying, Good morning, Mr. Documented. But you are suppose to go there because as a man that a man that has been studying pills, concerning elements and the vitalities of the body, as to where he can understand the condition, as to the function of your organic parts, and what it takes to feed those parts and revitalize their parts, as to your vital lines. This is what he's suppose to do, even though I say this and it sounds a little off color, but it's still true. The doctors really do nothing. Actually, I watch and it's the people that are in the labs that are working that strive and struggle to break down the blood and study it, and the chemistry and whatever, and just gives the doctor a report and the nurses are the ones that labor to do something for the body. The doctor just walks around, and says good morning, you know, and he's the one that has to let you in and put you out and really doesn't amount to nothing. Occasionally one will put a knife in you to cut you. Whereas I had a man in Monroe, as I said, the one that operated on Eisenhower, that was one of the outstanding surgeons, he said that a lot of it is just foolishness. He said, When I got cut on myself I learned that all them scars looked so bad, that that wasn't the proper thing to do, to be whacking on somebody all the time. But, anyway, they get a lot of money out of that. That's big money. Your life is not important. But in the midst of all of that in the medical world there are some conscientious people. And all of those good things that God has given to help, as I say again, the animal part, that is wonderful. The only thing we hate is the filth of the flesh. You don't have to get down and live like a dog and a man messing with a woman, and a woman messing with a man to heal somebody, or to be a doctor. That's not being anything except a bunch of dogs and pigs and just wallowing in the slop and the mire, and they turn the hospital into a sloppy mire. See? And the vultures have got around it. So you don't have to do that. It's the same way in school. You don't have to go to school to learn about that world of academics, you know, and turn into a bunch of dogs and hogs. You don't have to do that. But Satan started with a beast and he is the God of the beast and he has turned everything else that he could get a hold of into beasts until Jesus said they are swine and dogs. And even worse than that. He said they are serpents on their bellies and all of their labor is for their belly. All flesh has corrupted it's way. Poison of asps is under the tongue. It means that we've got to get out of the mire and we've got to get back to reality, and we've got to get to the Prince of Peace, and we've got to get back to virtue. You know, a virgin is a great thing. Ten virgins. Five were wise and five were foolish. Which means all of them were set apart for the same purpose. I know when people think about virtue all they can think about is passions, you know, and human relationship. They are so degraded all they can think about is the stimulation of quickening of nerves and whatever it might be as to the organic parts of people. Which doesn't have anything to do with that. Virtue is a holy God pureness. It is God Himself. We only make that reference to that because the woman is symbolic of the church. But we've got to get back to virtue and stop this filth of the flesh. But someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, you talk too strong; the filth of the flesh. It is the fifth of the flesh. Somebody said, Well, Brother Pike, who do you think is guilty? All flesh. The Bible said all flesh is guilty. All have corrupted their way, and we've got to get away from that. We are not dogs and we are not swine. We are Gods. We are not animals. We are sons of God. The world don't know how to set the pace. They don't know how to set the system. They don't know how to do nothing but make a mess. Somebody would say, Well, I think they done a good job so far. I don't know of any good job they have ever done. From history to history, as from everything of history that I've ever read, or ever known about, I've never found one good thing it ever done. That's the truth, so help me God. Every good thing that I've ever sought out, and I've sought out diligently many things, and every good thing I ever sought out I found at the base and the root of something good it was a godly man and a godly woman and a good person, even as the frontier women and men that settled America. And as Washington and Lincoln and those that, from the Bible, set America in order. The world is waiting for the sons of God. They're the only ones that have got any sense, the only ones that have any understanding. Somebody would say, Well, I don't believe that. Well, that's because you're an unbeliever. You don't believe the Bible. See? The Bible said when the church is taken out of here that they won't have enough sense to even make a bottle of healing medicine. All they are doing right now is reflecting what we have because of the grace of God and all good things come from God. So then, it's time that the children of God rose up, and they're going to rise up. They're tired of this thing, of these people running around like a bunch of dogs and ruling over them and they're going to rise and they're going to take the Kingdom and they're going to possess it forever and ever and they're going to clean the White House and they're going to clean these other places out and they're going to get those things out of there and dump the garbage. And they're going to put sons and daughters of God in there and they're going to drive the pigs out and clean up the pig pens. And they're going to come back and do something and do away with all the bubbling in the wine and the beer, dance halls and the all frolics of these x_rated moves, all these kind of things. You know, it's like this. I think of it a lot of times. They brand us as a cult out here. And you know why they do that? It's because they are ignorant. Paul said, I would not have you ignorant. They are blinded by the ignorance within them of their old intellectual fads and diplomacies. And they call something decent, they call it bad and they call it a cult. Now, that's what they did with the early church. That's what they called them. They called them heretics and burned them at the stake. But they were the bunch of heretics. And these people that call something Godly a cult it's because THEY are a cult. It's because they, themselves, don't have any sense and understanding. They are blinded by the ignorance within them and they're upside down. They are like bats; swinging by the tail, as we say. They don't have any understanding. They cannot see. They are blind and cannot see. Bats can't see. They've just got the old human senses and human feelings and they go around by feelings because they are creatures of darkness. Which means intellectual learning. So then, this is the case that's with them, see? Lucifer is their god. He's blind. He's the god of darkness and can't see? So then, they don't have this light on the inside like you and I. Now when we think about these things we realize that in the midst of these people God has sent wise men. Even to the Jews, He said, I sent you wise men. Not always preachers. Not always prophets, but wise men that help them with their cultures of life and they help them with many things. And He sent great wise men and wise women and virtuous people to set up something to help the survival of life, and these vultures, as it would be, has gathered around and put their foot on top of them, or pressed them out with their little intellectual PhDs. And they're doing the same thing in religion with their D.Ds and they are forcing them out to where you can't do nothing. They're forcing you to get to the college and the old house of prostitution so that they can take over even religion with their intellectual indoctrinations. But, I tell you, that's where death is. Death is the carnal mind. And I'm going to mention that this morning just a little bit. First I'd like to say this. Where is the cult? The cult are those that are practicing religion, that say they believe their Christians, that believe in the religious things of God to the extent that they practice religion, their churches and whatever. Those that make allowance for people to run around in bathing suits, those that make allowance for people to run around all over the house, all out in the yards and everywhere else fellowshipping in shorts. That's cults. Somebody said, Brother Pike, surely to God you don't mean that. My hand be raised to heaven, that's cults. Not only is it cults but it is doctrines of the devil and they're wrecking their faith and everything decent in the earth. And ball games and races, car races and foot races and every kind of thing that they do. All these things of buying and selling and eating and drinking and revelling and parties, all this thing of just going to and fro and having church programs, social programs and gatherings, whatever, all of that is a bunch of cults and it's called vomit on God's table. It's a lukewarm thing that is reflecting the good things of God and they never come to holiness. It's like going to the hospital. You know, you go to the hospital and they come in like a bunch of vultures. And I say that with all the respect that God would put in my heart toward true nurses and men that are trying to be decent and let women look after women and men look after men, except where it necessary, as to something that doesn't defile them. But, anyway, their coming in like a bunch of vultures all the time, just all the time. And they can't be satisfied unless they disrobe, or they do something to degraded. See? I know, as I say, in the midst of that there is good. But they say, You are ignorant. You are ignorant. Why we've never heard of such in our life. You are ignorant; this is nothing but a body, bones and flesh. We know all about it. We know the heart and the kidneys and whatever. And I think, No, I'm not ignorant. I've got understanding, you're ignorant and blinded by the ignorance within you. This is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and members in particular and a touch me not to you. And the Bible said it's to be holy and godly for it is God's temple. There's not one in here that would dare walk up and touch the great temple of God in heaven. You can't even get near it. And the Bible said darkness don't even come near our dwelling. So that's where the ignorance is. That's the cult. But they call this a cult because they don't understand. They're like bats; they can't see into this world. They don't understand light. All they've got is their intellectual definition as to a world of academics and to the molecular structure. That's their defining. And they say, Well, this is nothing but a body. It's a beast. We've done traced it back. And they're right. It's beast and that's why they do like they do and that's why God leads them like he does. All of them can do whatever they want to and the Bible said it dishonors your bodies. And the man leaving the natural use of the woman, them dishonoring their bodies one with another working that which is unseemingly, bringing upon them the wrath of God and receiving in themselves a recompense of reward for their evil, disgracing doings. See? But they are animals, but, folks, we're children of God. We're not animals. We don't want to be subjected to the hog pen and wallowing in the mire. We're sheep; not pigs. We don't like the stench of it and because we rise up against it they say, A bunch of ignoramuses. That's what's wrong with you. But to their shocking amazement some of these ignoramuses are still holding their integrity with God and determined to be decent and holy and virtuous and not get out there with the foolish virgins and wallow with a bunch of dogs. Somebody says, But Brother Pike, you sound so strong. You know, all I can say is, Glory to God, I like to tell it like it is. I want to tell it like it is. I think where the problems is today is everybody is trying to get so feminine and trying to get so that they have such a smooth touch, evangelists, everybody, until they're like some silly woman. And I don't mean that for good women, but silly women, you know, that wouldn't dare set the soul of their foot on the ground because of their delicateness. You know, I think about people. They get so silly with their diplomacies and they work in offices, and they're always around women, and silly women at that. And they get to where they just, you know__ I tell you, it's sickness. I've been there and some woman would come in and say, Good morning, and hold their fingers out for you to kiss her, you know, and then some man, you'd look and he'd hold his little hand up to for her to kiss his. And I thought, Of all the stupidity. You know, men are men. They are men. They are masculine. Ain't no woman wants nothing like that. That's what's caused the perversion. They got into this frame of mind and now they are perverted. They really don't know whether they are a man or a woman. But, anyway, I don't know why we're saying all of these things, but I'm just saying this is the problem, calling cults and calling cults, and they don't even know what a cult is. Even come and confessed to me, said, we don't know what a cult is. And then they go back and they brand something cult. How can they brand it cult when they confess they don't even know what a cult is? So, you are not people of ignorance. You are not people that don't understand. To the contrary the children of God do understand, though sometimes I use the terms, you just ain't understanding. I tell you again, I'm not saying you don't understand, in that the things we're saying. Of many hundreds of these things you understand and are receiving. But I'm saying you don't understand, as to what we are trying to reach as to the depths, and the dimensional depths of the greatness of this deep calling unto the deep at the waterspout of God. Where you are suppose to go into these things you are not doing it and you are just kind of hitting the surface. But, anyway, those people don't understand. They are without understanding and the Bible said that if a person doesn't understand to do from them. But you are people that understand. You are Gods. You are the one that sets the system and sets the pace. They are not to set the system. They've got everything conglomerated. But just as soon as we get all of that out, you know, and get their minds out of the boggle, get the right people. There are a lot of good people in the government, and a lot of good people in the world and a lot of good people in denominations and religious walks of life. And a lot of good people in the medical world, that as soon as they find out there is somebody going to stand for the right thing they're going to take a stand and turn against all of that mess and begin to buck against them and will pull that thing out of the fire. And it's the same way in the military. They've let the military get to where it's just a slop hole. You know, you run around with pig tails, or anything else. They used to be men, but not anymore. And now I know that in there there is gallant men, and the is brave men, and courageous people. I know they've done a lot of good things and a lot of courageous men have died so we could have this liberty, but now we've got a lot of silly diplomacies in there that don't know nothing. Ninety day wonders, we used to call them. And they'd get half scared to death if you put them on a battlefield. So they've decided the best thing they can do now is get the women, so they're putting them on the battlefield. They're putting them on the battle ships, and they're putting them everywhere else. It's sad to know that a man is so lazy in America that he has to have a woman to do the work. In the medical world you say something to them and they say, Oh, they say, we don't have but just a very few men. Seven, ten men, all the rest of ours is women. And I think, Of all the lazy things. You men won't do it, doctors or whatever. And you've just got a few doctors running around in here to tell them what to do, and here the women is doing all the work. Now. Somebody says, I just thank God for Bethlehem. I do too, and I pray that someday that Bethlehem will have a good purging where you'll quit being like that and stop the women from work. Let's give the Lord a hand, so that we don't fall into the same trap. Like somebody was saying to me the other day. Said, if I was a woman if a man couldn't make me a living, said, I wouldn't want him. If I've got to make the living anyway what is she going to do with him anyway? What good is he? See? You're suppose to be making the living. You're suppose to be doing something. Somebody says, Who are you talking to? Said, I say it to all. That fits me, too. All right. A little thought here. Hebrews eleven, the first verse. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." The Bible said, by it the elders obtained a good report. Understand the world was framed by the Word of God. And Paul goes on to say, so that we automatically know, that those thing which we are seeing and beholding, they were not made by things that we see, but they were made by invisible things. The things I behold with my eyes and that I'm acquainted with, or relate too in my human senses, was not made by the brilliance of intellectual diplomacy. They were made by the invisible world and by God, and everything that we have that's tangible emanated from God in the invisible world and everything that God gave was pure. There is nothing unclean of itself. There is nothing contaminated of itself. It's only through the fall of the garden that contamination came in. Now, this is what I'd like to dwell on just for a few minutes. Maybe not hold you long but dwell on these thoughts for just a few minutes, as to your edification. First of all, the garden was without spot, without blemish. There was not one germ in it of death. There was no one spot, not one speck on the fruit, nor on the body. The hair of a woman and a man was like silk. It would have been the most beautiful stuff you've ever seen. Their bodies were like the light, the sun. They were illuminated with this bright, wonderful glory of an abundance of life. And the garden was so beautiful that it was breathtaking. All kind of species, every kind of species was there for them, everything. It wasn't like scattered all over the world like we have now. Everything was right there for them. Every type of fruit was right there in the garden. And they didn't have to work. They didn't have to toil. They didn't have to make any plans or programs to go anywhere. There was no place that they could go to vacation that was greater than their vacation spot where they lived. There was no place that was more enticing in all the world than where they were at. There was nothing to be offered them in any part of the world outside of what they had that was so great and satisfying and full. Full, as to fill them with all the jubilance and joy of living. So when man fell it wasn't because there was something wrong with the garden, nor wrong with God, nor wrong with anything outside of man himself. Now, we use this term a lot of times, death came by man. Death didn't come by God. We need to get this into our heart. Someone would say, Well, what do we want to talk about death for? Well, what do we want to talk about life for? Oh, somebody says, Well, now life, I like that. But the thing is, you're going to die. That's the thing. See? If you like life you'd better talk about death, and you'd better find out something about death, because that's why you go to the hospital, to find out about death when you're going to lose your life. See? And that's where the problem is. Everybody is running after life in the world out here around us. Everybody is running after life everywhere, trying to get life but nobody has considered death and what causes death, and where death came from, outside of trying to intellectually define it in their little ole minute mind. (Begin tape one, side two.) And that's where the problem is. See? But, anyway, we realize that there was nothing wrong with anything that God had done. And there was nothing unclean of itself. And did you know? Even in the world today it's still clean. There is nothing that is unclean of itself. There is not one thing that is unclean of itself. But to him that esteemeth a thing to be unclean to him it is unclean. So then, that means that that tells us something. Someone would say, Well, what it tells me, I can do anything I want to. Ain't nothing unclean. I'm just going to think of it as being clean and go right on with my lasciviousness, go right on doing my evil, dirty thing. That shows your stupidity. See? When God said it is only unclean to him that esteemeth a thing to be unclean, He was speaking of the evil heart of unbelief. Because you are not born again in your spirit you are unclean. And everything around you is unclean because it's under the curse. And until you are born again and Christ renews within your right spirit and takes your spirit of your first birth out, I don't care how religious you are you are still unclean and all things are unclean to you. But the Bible said, He that giveth of that which he hath, even of his spirit, of his time, his substance, behold all things are clean unto him, and he cannot esteem things to be unclean because he is clean in his spirit. He is sanctified once and for all in his heart and spirit and he is clean and holy in his mind, to love God and to meditate in the laws of God day and night. And he is clean from within. Jesus said cleanse the platter on the inside, and he is cleansed from within. And therefore, because he is cleansed he is not beholding through dirty windows, and he looks even beyond the filth of the flesh. This fifth which is in every living human being is the first birth. He looks beyond this and he doesn't know anyone after the flesh. And he looks for the inner man, as to the second man, the Lord from heaven. Looking unto this man he sees something holy, something pure, something that Christ, the great Spirit, has become interwoven in. And this spirit has been run through a filter and it is holy and it is pure, and it is interwoven with Christ on the inside, and it is life. And it is eternal life. It is abundance of life, as to whatever measure the man has received. And then when he looks at the other he looks at the other in pity. Though he sees the flesh, though he sees the filth of the flesh through his natural eyes, he looks back at Calvary and says, Let all the world rejoice for the Lord reigneth, for there in now blood on the seat of atonement, and God has taken away the sins of the world. And even Judas, being in the midst of the disciples could be there, being a devil, but yet God allowed__ Even Satan in the book of Revelation, in the twelfth chapter, is found in heaven, standing there in heaven. Though he's the devil of uncleanness himself. The unclean spirit himself. Yet he's standing there because of the blood being on the seat of atonement. We find him, even in the book of Job, going before God, right up to the heavens into the presence of him that's holy, because of the blood of the Lord Jesus being so powerful to God that God would accept it to cleanse everything, to the extent of a dispensational grace that man might have opportunity to pull out from among the lasciviousness of the beast world, and those things that God hates to conform to the things of God to get a new born again experience. And as David of old said, to renew a right spirit with him. So we see how beautiful it is with God. No death. Death comes by man. God never instigated death. All the things that he did, the one thing he left out was death. And then comes the man, and the man he begins to cause problems through the weakness of the flesh, as to the woman. She goes to wondering around looking here and there, and instead of abiding by the understanding of her husband, instead of staying within the radius and confines of the government, which her hair represents on the shoulder, instead of doing that, as the church of today, she decided to bob it off. She wants her glory her way. A woman will mess with her glory, as to her hair, doing it all kind of ways, pin it up, pop pins and she'll do anything to it to get it off of the shoulders. She'll cut it, whatever. And the church world today has literally cut the glory off, and they've got into bathing suits and everything else. And the doctrine of the husband, which is the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the Word of God, that said power must be on her head, speaking of that which is the spirit of her husband controlling her body, because she doesn't have a mind. It's his mind that she has rejected. She has rejected that. And soon there was another mind that came along. That's why Paul said you need power on your head because of the angels. If she had had power on head, which was her covering, which was her husband, which was the covering of her, then she would never have taken another mind. But she took another mind through her human senses by looking, desiring through the lust of the eyes, and the Bible said, thus sin came into the world through lust. She lusted and the windows of her soul was opened, and then Satan, the ruler of intellectual reasoning, which is darkness, lust and covetousness came in. When it came in it came into her body. Got control of her body and ravished her body and defiled her and went through her to Adam and vainly puffed Adam up by his fleshly mind saying, we're going to be gods. I've done found the secret, we're going to be gods. And the Bible said, though he was the most beautiful tree in the garden he lifted himself up above the others. And when he did then he lost the Shekinah illumination of the glory and it went away and Adam found himself in darkness. And he found himself the same way, that is in intellectual reasoning with the old tree of knowledge saying, I am naked. What happened to me? I am naked. They had the Shekinah illumination of the covering. They were not naked. They were very, very sober in their spirit. They were pure and clean and holy on the inside because they were pure by the illumination and they knew nothing else. They had been taught nothing else. They had never been to a house of learning. And because of that all they knew was what God had introduced to them, which was subject to their human senses, as to the creature part, by the illumination of the purification of the virtue of His wonderful presence. And they were holy and they were clean, and they never thought a thought degraded toward one another. There was no such thing in their world. But when the devil came in that's all he can do, woman and man. It's degraded. All he can think of is reproduction and the slop hole of passions. That's all he can do. He can't get his mind off of it. Put it on the billboards. Put it on the television. Paint the lips up. Hang rings in the ears. Get a form fitting dress. Get some man in a soot suit. You know, let him let his hair grow out. Let him pump his muscles. Let him be flirting. Let him be real feminine like. Let him get him a college degree and slick his hair back, to lazy to work. And let him work the little things out with his smooth words so he can just ravish the women and kill and just destroy. The Bible said Satan is a robber and a thief until he just makes everything a mush and a mess. All swines and dogs lapping their own vomit and wallowing in the mire, calling it the professional way life. Calling it the great way of the Olympics. Calling it the great thing of this world of sports and exercises and things that we're suppose to do. All of it is a slop hole. Like the vision I saw of the slime pit and the woman so beautiful and screaming and couldn't get out of the slime pit. And I remind you again, I ran to help her out and when I grabbed her hand like that it locked on my hand and she turned into a hideous witch and she didn't want to get out of the slime pit. She wanted to pull me into the slime pit. That's the world. Mirror, mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all. Snow White. Though your sins be as scarlet I shall make them as white as wool. As white as snow. So the old bewitching thing. Paul said, Who hath bewitched you that you should not listen to the minister, as to obey the truth. Who hath bewitched you, oh, foolish Galatians, he said. What's happened to you? You started in the spirit. How is it now that you are made perfect with academics? and made perfect with diplomacies? and made perfect with your human reasoning? Or how is it that you are made perfect with the things of the law of these natural symbolic things that has nothing to do with God at all, that are just symbols of types and shadows and things that are given for the times and seasons that's appointed until the promise can come? I'm afraid of you, he said. You observe signs and seasons; I'm afraid of you. God is a spirit, Jesus said, you must worship Him with your spirit, and worship Him in truth. Not by joining the Baptist, the Methodist, the Presbyterian, the Pentecostal, the Catholic Church. Not by counting beads and holy water. Not by being dipped in water called baptism. See? Baptism is a burial. But you are saved by the blood. There is no remission of sins without the shedding of the blood. It takes the blood of Jesus, for there is no other blood. There is no other blood. All blood is contaminated from the fall of Adam. It is completely contaminated. There is no life in it; it is all death. All of you abide in death. You are dead in trespasses and sin. You are not handsome. You're not pretty. You're not educated. You're not rich. Solomon gathered gold like dust; that didn't make him nothing. He had all kind of wisdom and lost out with God in his old age. See? You ain't nothing except in God. Except in God. But in God you are a god. In God you are everything. Someone would say, Well, I'm in God, Brother Pike, I'm a Christian. In God means you're mind is in this Word. Your mind becomes this Word and this Word become you and you become the Word made manifest and every thought, intent of the heart, every impulse. If you're not walking in the Word you're not in Him. If you're predestinated you're predestinated into hell unless you're predestinated through the Word, for the Bible said God has chosen us in Christ, which is in the Word. And the Bible said God has predestinated us in Him, which is in the Word. And He hath chosen us in Him. And in Him we're complete. He's got everything. And if you're not in that mind you're not in the spirit. You are in your own mind of the lust of the flesh, things of the world, and Satan is your god. You are following him and you're under the auspices of Satan and you have the love of the world in you and you are subject to the vanities of the world and you're passing away like a shadow. In the world they have a saying, You're wasting away. So then, we see the great thing that God did. When Adam fell he began to say, I need some clothing. I've got to have a covering and he fell among the beast, among the trees. He was no more illuminated in his mind and spirit out yonder. That's what has happened to some of you. You have been exposed to this and it's come to you. And the whole church world by the grace of God, has had an expose, but now they are going back to their careers. And they are going back to making money. And they're going back to buying the vain things of the world and the vain jingles of the world. And they're going back to sports and television and all of these evangelists and ball players and racers, and all of these money men, and everything that they can pull together out of the world. And especially the youth have gone crazy. They have gone crazy. They've got their youth and they think, I'm just going to live forever. I'm going to have the money. I'm going to be this. I'm going to be famous. I'm going to be some great star. I think they're trying to bring Elvis Presley back now. In another week is it they say that the something will be up, as to the statue of limitations. He's been hiding away and he's going to come back. Well, anyway, with all of these crazy things Jesus said, I've got a title for you. Sinful and adulterous generation; I'll burn you with fire. So Sodomites, fornicators, liars, cheats, virtue gone, no decency. It used to be a great thing to be a virgin. A great thing. For a man to be a virgin, for a woman to be a virgin, that was a great thing. Was no greater thing, hardly, in the earth. Today that's ironic to even think somebody would be a virgin, as to the natural way of life. They wouldn't even consider such thing. See? The thing is, Adam fell. He fell, and when Adam fell you fell. So, since Adam never did get back up you never did get back up. No one ever got up except through Calvary. No one. And because Calvary is here then God has brought you up. While you are yet living He hath brought you up to this wonderful, beautiful body. Be baptized in the name of Jesus. Put you on the Lord Jesus Christ. Put on your beautiful garments that have been tried in the fire. Be the body of the Lord. Yield your members as those alive from the dead. Be not as a beast, a ravening beast, or a beast made to be taken and destroyed. God gave this in foreknowledge before the world ever was. As many as believed were ordained unto eternal life. And as many as were ordained they did believe. And the foreknowledge of God hath you names already written down in the Lamb's book of life and you're already covered with the blood. Your body is the purchased possession by the blood and it's at the right hand of the Father. And you are inactive in the body. And the body that you now have, that you look at naturally of that that appears is dead and you're to despise it. Hide it away, put it away, hid it away, leave it. Don't despise your youth. Don't despise your opportunity and your nature and opportunity to be a child of God. Remember your creator in the days of your youth and be an example, but despise that lust of the flesh and the filth of the flesh and that intellectual mind you've got and that longing and desire to be in the world and revel in the world and do the things of the world and be like the world and to show your face and to show your body and to project yourself. Despise that thing. God said I'll despise your image in the morning. Paul said, Oh, wretched man am I. I'm delivered from this wretched body by the body of Jesus Christ, and if I'm going to live it's going to be Christ. Now, when it comes to your body you're the body and bone of His own flesh. That's the way He sees you. It doeth not yet appear, as to what you see, because when you look you're not going to see bone and flesh of Him. And what you see and what the world sees with their natural eyes and conductive nerves, they're not going to see His flesh and bones. Because the Bible says it is not yet apparent. It is not yet in appearance. You do not see it. It doeth not yet appear what ye shall be, for He is at the right hand of the Father. And if you want to see yourself look in the spirit and you'll see Him out there. You'll see Him through the eyes of your understanding. As your understanding is enlightened you'll behold the Son of God. As Pilot said, Behold the man. And you'll see Him and you'll look beyond the human veil of your human personage and you'll look at that great inner, second man, the Lord from heaven, realizing that this tabernacle that's in this intellectual wilderness must be dissolved, and that you've got to get over the intellectual Jordan of the death of this carnality, for to be carnal minded is death. And even since Adam and Eve got entangled in that their seed died. In Adam all die, and as long as you think carnally and naturally, as to this world, as to the molecular structure you're doing to die, because Satan savors the things that be of this natural life, these natural things. He doesn't savor the things that be of the spirit because he's driven out of the spirit. He's only a reflector of the spirit world. And this world is only a reflector of the spirit world, and all of the people in this world is only a reflector of the spirit world. So somewhere there has to be an inner angelic being in your little tabernacle or you don't belong to that angelic spiritual world of paradise because this body doesn't belong to Him. And if you don't have that angelic new birth then that means that you are relative to the world of darkness with an angelic being living on the inside because these little tabernacles are going to dissolved with the brightness of His coming, as to that daystar of the revelational light dawning from within you to change you and make this light manifest in your mortal genes, or it's going to come from yonder as he appears in that body coming down as a consuming fire at the end of the church ages and it's going to consume your very image that He said, I will destroy with the brightness of My coming. Even the man of perdition and him that sitteth in the temple of God showing himself through his intellectual diplomacies that he's the ruler; that he is god. So he is god in this world. He is the god of this world. And it is given unto him to give this to whomsoever he will. Now, unless there is a hunger more in you than I have felt for a thirty-five minute sermon, or a twenty minute sermon, or just wanting to get out early, you'll never get it. You that are this morning so interested in what I'm saying, so interested, some of you are already so interested and yet you feel like you've sized up what God wanted you to say and your whole spirit is already changing to get out of here. You know why? Because you are not born again. The very fact that those thoughts seize you, that you would turn to the belly proves that you are a swine and a dog and your interest dwindles away and your thirst is to get out there. We've heard it now give us a good day, a long day; let us out of here. It is because you are swine and you are dogs, and you're not children of God, unless it be a little baby in our midst. Which sometimes this is true. And you few, and you are few, that have an interest in God, that is hungering and thirsting, not as to come to hear a thirty-five minute sermon, but come this morning saying, Well, glory to God, today is the day that I'm not out on the job, I'm going to be here all day long. Brother Pike, why do we have to leave? We want to be here all day long. We stay on our jobs all day long. But, see? It's not like that. It's those that dwindle away in that feeling because they are fleshly. They are carnal minded. They are abiding in death. They've never had a born again experience. They don't have any interest in spiritual things. Though they try to pray and try to fast and do all of these things, I tell you in the name of the Lord they're not born again and they don't have any interest. See? This is the thing that upset the Jews. The Jews fasted and prayed and did all kind of things, and the Lord said, Away with your assemblies, your solomon assemblies, I don't want any of it. I'm sick of it He said. I'm sick of your fasting and praying and all these things, where you pray and make long prayers to be heard and to be seen in the synagogues and praised of men, and to have the upper seats in the synagogues. He said, Away with it. And the Lord said to them, He said, you don't fast unto Me and you don't pray unto Me. That's your routine. That's your way of life. They said, Wherefore have we fasted and prayed and You take no knowledge, Oh, God! You know, they were saying, You're cruel. He said, My ways are not uneven. Your ways are uneven. That's where the problem is. See? And that's what's wrong with you Bethlehem. Not only Bethlehem, but this goes out to people around the world. That's what's wrong with you. See? You are in such a religious rut until you don't grow in the knowledge. When you leave the sanctuaries you don't go after anything concerning God. You fill that belly with food and you go out there looking for a ball game, or a television show and you can't hardly wait to get out of the sanctuary. You can't hardly wait. You wouldn't even come to the house of God on Sunday morning if it wasn't for the fact of the fear of going to hell, and you've done got into a routine and you live here and some of you live on the campground. That's the only reason you come, to keep your place on the campground. The only reason you come to men's meeting. And you don't really participate in nothing, as to helping with anything, or any sacrifice toward any, or upholding the school, or anything else. You're nothing of nothing here. But there is a few little faithful ones like Gideon's few that does stand by me. And the others are just ready to do their thing. That's all they're here for. They look forward everyday to doing their thing, and getting their life, as they call it. And, folks, it's an abomination in the sight of God. But to the few, I say to you again, as to my babies in Christ, and to the few that love the Lord, there is a few. Someone would say, Brother Pike, when you say few, how many? I might could count them on one hand. I might not. I might not need one hand to count them on they're so few. They are so few, as to real genuine born again experience. You say, I just don't believe that. I can't help it if you don't believe it. It's that tight and that narrow. I remind you again, the Bible said strive. Do you know striving is? Have you ever seen two people fighting together and one striving to over come the other? Fighting and clawing, and biting and kicking, and doing everything and using ever ounce of strength and perspiring. Just giving out. It said strive. Fight against the devil. Strive against the flesh. That's where the devil is at. Strive against your outer man and your intellectual desires and your will. Strive to enter in to the straight gate that we're speaking of for many are going to try in their religious efforts and not going to be able to get in. And He said, Strait is this gate, like a strait jacket. You just squeeze through. Strait is the gate and narrow is this way. It's a narrow, strait way, He said, and few there be that find this way. And He said, strive to enter in for many shall try and not be able. And He said, If the righteous scarcely make it where shall the sinner and the ungodly appear. I know we're living in the great day of jubilee. We're living in the great day of evangelists. We're living in the great day of healing. Blow them down, do anything you want to with them. Don't make no difference. This is that great outpouring of God's Spirit. You're ignorant, folks. You're ignorant when you think like that. See? It ain't like that at all. The pouring out of the spirit has been since pentecost. It's always been. Joel prophesied of it. See? And it ain't no more today. It's just a big fad today of this intellectual exuberance and some of them are not even ministers of God. They just transform their minds as a reflection to do Satan's thing for this religious thing to gather the body of the world together in their foolishness. It it still the same old time Holy Ghost God preaching that has always been, that the apostolic leaders had to have, and the people had to have. Turn my people from that intellectual fad of religion and darkness to light, Paul, which is the real truth. See? Having a love for the truth. And because they don't God has turned them over to a reprobate mind and caused them to believe a lie and be damned. Sending them strong delusion that they might be destroyed. So then, it's still strait gate. It's still few there be that find it. So you are a little flock. Fear not little flock. You are a little flock. As I saw the vision just a few of them made the rapture. When this rapture takes place, take my word for it, millions upon millions and not only millions, but billions of people in the world. All around the word when the rapture takes place it's going to be such few people that will lift from this earth that if you had a way to take stock you would literally be shocked to the core of your soul in an awesomeness. Somebody said, Well, that's your opinion. No. That's not my opinion. It's the Bible. That that you feel is your ignorance. It's the Bible. That's what it is. It's going to be exactly that way. Few there be that find it, If the righteous scarcely be saved. So then, I say, let's do this, children of God, as you would say. Let's count the righteous in here this morning. Now, that brings a different light, doesn't it? Oh, now, when we stop to think about that, what do you mean, Brother Pike? I mean I've heard you talk about just about everybody here. Now, each one of you point out the righteous. You stand up and tell me who is righteous. If we've got a whole slew of them here this morning on the campground why have you talked about them the way you did? Why do you find fault with them? Why are you always finding fault with them? Why is the discrepancy in your mind toward everyone that you mentioned at the time of it? Why not stand up and point out the righteous one? It sounds pretty narrow. Somebody says, Well, I can't help it if I see it. But has it ever occurred to you that that is the way they see you, too? While you feel that way toward them they're seeing your short comings and that puts you in the same field of activity that they're in; in the same dilemma. So you need to listen to the Word of God. Somebody said, Well, then that means you just think we ought to listen to you. That means I think you ought to listen to God. He said it's not me speaking but Him. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right. A lot of times people say, Well, Brother Pike, are you upset with us? I'm upset with the devil and the filth of the flesh. These tapes go everywhere and I'm talking to those people out there. There are millions of people that need to hear these things and God is seeing that they hear them, and they are breaking the yokes and people are beginning to revive and come to their senses. Let's just stand together. I appreciate your attention this morning. Many things I'd like to say but I know that you don't have the interest after the little thirty-five minute sermon, or whatever it might be, I can tell some of your interests are already gone. You listen real good at first. You fire up real good at first but then it isn't very long, no endurance, and you're gone. Like a wrestler friend of mine that was converted. He retired from wrestling. Looked like a young bull, he was so burly. One day I was talking to him, the man that owns the mask, Paul, when we were preaching up at the Sports Arena. His wife gave her heart to God. I was just walking along talking with him and slapped him on the arm. I said, Man, with those arms the way you are, you've got plenty of strength. He said, Yeah, Brother Pike, I really do have. Having wrestled all over the world. Japan and everywhere. Famous for the lock that no one could ever break. He said, I have. He said, But I don't have any endurance. (Begin tape two, side one.) That's what's wrong with some of you. You know, you start off real good but you don't have any endurance. So then, with spiritual endurance that means you don't really get anything from God. Just get enough as to a surface thing to get you interested, and it satisfies you to the extent that you feel like that you enjoyed it. And then the next thing you want to enjoy is the rest of your life to go your thing. Like a man in Olive Branch, poverty, nothing, ask me to pray. I said, I'm going to pray and God's going to bless you. He got rich. If he got rich he'd promised to built a church so he did. He took a few dollars and went down into Mexico where he could get a few little things together and it cost him hardly nothing to try to keep his word. And then after that something was said about really serving God and he said, Well, I want something for myself. So he got it. Fairly young man; he got it. Unless God undertook he's in hell now, but he got something for himself. He did what he wanted to do. God has given him something to do with, made him health and well. He was healthy and well. Like a picture of health, but he let the filth of the flesh, and the lust of the flesh get in and the first news you know God let Satan hit him and kill him. All right. Let's sing a little song together. You that want to do your own thing and you don't need God, and you want to do something for yourself, and keep something for yourself we're giving you liberty to do something for yourself. Every time you come to the knowledge of God and then you go on out with your own will and desire then you're doing something for yourself and you've rejected the Word of God and that means that you have all opportunity now to do something for yourself. And you that don't want to do anything for yourself as for Jesus saying, Not my will but thine. Wanting to be the body of Christ and willing to give your body to the Lord that you might exchange this life for the world to come then I say to you, the Bible said he that gains his life here shall lose it and he that loses his life here for My sake shall gain it. So you go and lose you life and shorten your days by your disobedience, even with the diseases or whatever, and live a miserable life with what few days you do have. But you that love God, that wants to be one with this Christ in my heart, and one with the Christ in the hearts of these precious brothers and sister then give your life to God and God will give you eternal life. You that are my children, whether you're here at home or abroad, when you hear these words remember that you are my children in God. You are Christ's children and being that way you are not a beast. Not even your body. It's not a beast. Your body is preserved by God. It's precious. It's holy. It's blameless. It's spotless. It's covered with the blood and it don't do around esteeming its image. It doesn't go around esteeming its education. It doesn't go around esteeming its strength, its brilliance, its passions. It does around with God on its mind day and night and giving the body as a virgin to God to bring forth a child, as a conception, which is Christ. As the vision I say, birthing a child. I travailed until Christ be formed within you. So you that are wanting to do that, and you want to give yourself here on the home front, as to do something on the home front, or missionary work, or abroad, as to one with that spirit, as the Brotherhood around the world, you are welcome to do it, to see eye to eye, not to break ranks, to walk hand in hand and to be faithful in the corner wherever this ministry places you and God will bless you. Abundantly He will bless you. Not going after the things of the world, seeking the Kingdom and he'll add all these things to you to make you rich to give you honor and long life. For I would above all things that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. Go after the natural things like you've done in the last few months and you're going to be just exactly like you are now because you went after the natural things. Whereas, when I first brought you here you went after the spiritual things and you became rich, abundantly blessed. Even Chuck told me, said, God has made me rich, Brother Pike. So then, God wants to bless you if you're willing to follow His steps. We're going to do a little work on the sanctuary. Back of me where this picture is, I wish we could have brought it out the other night, the door open in heaven, but I couldn't. I had some spiritual things, and still have many things to say to you, but seeing that you're dull of hearing I can't say these things. Pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation. We're going to cut out this back, back here, cut through there. Have a big place cut through there and with that a little additional thing and there will be a door. And it has great significance at this time concerning James' departure and during the church ages and these other things. And right here when you've all learned everything and don't need to learn any more God is about to reveal something to them that has gone far enough along to come the open door to where they can start learning something, whereas, you've learned exactly nothing. You've got just enough to bring condemnation and death to you, because you are now guilty knowing and not doing. But to them that have applied themselves, that love the Lord, it's a great moment and a great time. And rather than drifting off like these others have done and getting complacent and halfhearted, their minds just on the belly and the things of the world until they eat and rot and they're thrown into the ground, you that have not done that, or are not doing that, you few that are looking for something to do on the home front to put the gospel around the world and not ready to reason in your intellectual reasoning to reason yourself clear out of a job thinking that God is bankrupt, then get in and do something for God and continue your work here on the home front, or abroad and with all diligence, as I said to somebody the other day, not to seesaw. Get in. Get on one side or another. Get with the world and enjoy sin for a season, else come in here and really enjoy the things of God. Forget about one side of your life and die to it. The veil is rent in twain. Die to the flesh. Die to the things of the flesh, the death that you need to die considering your intellectual zeal. Like the Jews had to do. Bring in the spiritual side as the spiritual Israelite and get in once and for all and be a Christian. Whatever you do do with all your heart and might and strength. And do it for God. And think about God, to live for God, to be like God, to want God, to hunger and thirst for God. And don't never look back into Egypt. Don't never think about your career, your life and your job, and your business, or anything else that pertains to the flesh. Get on this side once and for all, because you are going to wish you had. The changing time is there and you're going to wish you had. Kind of like the vision the Brother saw when we were up here preaching and the big ball of fire came through the door. And as it came it turned into a man sitting on a throne as a blaze of fire, moving down toward where we were it passed right through us and went out the back. And sure enough it looks like there is going to be a place out the back. What I understand it's relating back to the Eastern Gate. The breaking forth of the gate to find entrance for the Lord Jesus. Even with James, what happened to him. Those gates that were closed and sealed, and if nothing happens they're doing something about it. I watched even the two men that were laying it off yesterday, allegorically as to what was taking place. It's right here at the time they put the crown on the school. About got it ready for the children, to show the crossing of the Jordan and all of you that have died in the wilderness, that really heard, just like those people did. You've heard, heard, heard and couldn't wait to do your thing. You were living in your natural mind all the time. And the earth eventually swallowed them up. The world got the best of them. So you that turned back in to Egypt in your heart, which that is what you've done, there is something going on now, as to a new birth, the children going over. And then, like somebody said the other day, several of my daughters were standing before me singing. I was standing in there trying a suit and I said to David Paul, I'm ready to go to Washington. And this thing, of course is real allegoric as to what is taking place in such a way that you have never seen it. You don't understand. You have never seen it. Though I know you say you do, but I know you don't. And that's why you've become complacent, and that's why you've lost out with God. And that's why you've turned away and that's why you've had the world on your mind and been halfhearted in these meetings that we've have and half concerned, because as I said, you never did see it. The eyes of your understanding never was enlightened. The Bible said you were blinded by the ignorance of your own intellectual zeal and will. On the inside you never did see it. Well, let's sing this little chorus together. We're still do have a musician or two, around about. Every time we lose a musician that gives us a vacancy so that we could put in another one. Like some of them that's wanting to be on the campground. They're always approaching me to be on the campground. They long to be on the campground if it ever comes up. Some many of them while others just lethargy around on the campground, just homesteading, but God will eventually work them off and He'll make the change. He always does that. But we'll find some of the new talent and give them a break and give them a start, as some of them. Others die in the wilderness. Okay. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing) Sing it with me now. (Singing) Come a little closer to the Lord. The altars are open while we're singing these little choruses. I give you a chance to come and renew your covenant with the Lord if you'd like to come. And it's not compulsory that you come, but if you'd like to come you have opportunity each time to come and renew your covenant with the Lord. So while we sing these songs you're welcome to come. (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) Let's just lift our hands up together. Pray and believe. The Lord is going to leave you. You remember what I'm telling you. He's going to leave you and there's going to be a number of you that will never find Him again. Never. He's going to leave you. Take my word for it. And there will be a number of you that will never, never again find Him. You'll be cut off eternally all because you had such great opportunity. Especially you at Bethlehem, you had such great opportunity. You've had opportunity like people around the world, since the beginning of the world, long to have, but you did like the Jews. You took it for granted that it was yours; God chose you, you were special, and because of that you didn't have to worry so you just put it on the back burner, but now there's going to be a difference. Going to be a difference. You did it. You did it. Jesus said, Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, how oft would I have gathered thee, but you didn't have any interest. You didn't have any concern. You didn't have no care. I was just another person to you. All you're going to do is destroy me, find fault with me, tear me down. You had other plans, other programs. You're mind was in the flesh. You were after the world, sought after the world. All of the Gentiles seek after the things of the world. The Bible says salvation is of the Jew and he's ready to turn back to the Jew. The days are fulfilled with the Gentiles and the days of misery is coming and the Bible said to pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape those things that are coming on the earth. That you may be counted worth for they're going to gnaw their tongue for pain. You've got plenty of time to stay out of church to go do your thing, to be what you want to be and to come whenever you take a notion and act like you want to when you come and have a halfhearted interest. And then when you leave all day long put all of your time in the natural desire of wealth and securities and the natural things, and all day long, as a rule, never really give God any of your time to get into the Word of the Lord, or the spiritual things, or whatever, and just take enough time in the Bible, reading or something to read about, or think about to pacify yourself, or to make you feel satisfied that you are still with him. But you have done wrong. You've done wrong but that's between you and God. My job is preaching. My place is to tell people all over the world, as the song I wrote, to tell people. And the pleasure I have is to come here to tell you. The pleasure you have is to come here. Someone one would say, To hear you, Brother Pike? No, to hear God. To hear God speaking. Not me speaking but Him. So the pleasure that you have is to hear God speak, and you've treated it as not. Treated it as nothing. Treated it just as a man telling you something, for because of that your houses is left unto you desolate until one day when the Lord does come around you'll say, Blessed is he. Blessed is he; it doesn't matter who it is. Blessed is he, that individual. Blessed is he that's coming to me in the name of the Lord. You may never have seen that. But, oh, I've seen that. I saw the time I said, Blessed is he, O God. Blessed is he! O Lord, he's a little old nobody. He's a little old novice. He don't hardly know his right hand for his left, and he doesn't even know pentecost, but he's talking about You. He's talking about the Bible. O, my God, my soul languishes just to hear, just to hear one drop of water. You'll find you. You'll find out. Well, let's sing this little chorus together. You have a lot of time to do your thinking. Let's lift our hands up together. You tell all the others as you go round about and meet them, that come when they take a notion and don't come when they don't want to and come on special occasions, that the Lord is now moving off and leaving them. You've got a ministry so you can go. I give you a charge. You out there with people, all around, everywhere. Let's sing the chorus, I Will Praise Him. (Singing) Remember when the Lord leaves off with you, what comes? What follows that? Judgment. It begins at the house of God and it follows. You don't just leave off and say, Well, there's been enough religion anyway. I'll eat and drink and be merry. You leave off with God, He leaves off with you. You draw nigh to Him He draws nigh to you. You resist Him and He resists you. You walk contrary to Me, He says, I'll walk contrary to you. Just being careless, doing your own thing. See? And what happens is when He leaves off with you the riches leave, the blessing leave, the health leaves, the happiness leaves. The day becomes long and drab, lonely, there is no happiness any more. You don't enjoy your car no more. You don't enjoy your home anymore. You don't enjoy your health anymore. You don't enjoy food. You don't enjoy your job. You don't enjoy anything anymore. You are vexed all the day long. That's what you want. That's what you're trading God for. You don't need virtue, according to the way you felt. You don't need understanding. You don't need Brother Pike and the others to minister to you. You've got all you need. You've got all you want of religion. So God won't bother you; He'll just gently withdraw. You that love the Lord, I'm telling you to press in. For God's sake press in, because if the righteous scarcely be saved, with all of your efforts you're scarcely going to make it. Press in because you're going to be in the midst of these that He's going to depart from and they're going to go right on, turned over to a reprobate mind, interested in money, interested in businesses, interested in jobs and careers. Interested in faces and forms. Interested in their own intellectual reasoning, their own ministries, their own doings, their own places, their own things. Interested, principally in the world and all that's in the world. Satan is going to give it to them because they are carnally minded and they are in debt. I can nothing like expound to you what I wanted to expound today. The other night when I came concerning the open door, I didn't even get into my message. See? And yet you come and yet you go, and yet the message fails to come. And yet we still put something on tape and we still preach to you the things that you need because you're running so far behind in the things that you should have, and it's like somebody that needs pass to a high grade but you have to keep them in the elementary grades because they don't exercise their senses to be able to discern, as to the good and evil. And so then you remain in this complacency. But, anyway, that's for you. That's for you. I have to answer to God for me. I have to answer to God for you if I allow your blood to be on my hands and I've ministered to you for over twenty years. Some of you as long as you've been here. Two years, three years, whatever. Some of you have listened partially. Some of you have listened more than others. Even those that listen at the best should listen ten times what they listened. But, anyway, that's between you and the Lord. So as we sing this little chorus, I Will Praise Him, let's lift our hands up. (Singing) Can you sing it again?

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord