Whosoever Is Born Of God

Sing a little chorus of it. (Singing.) Sing it with me now. (Singing.) We're going to sing that one more time. I want you to think now. (Singing.) Remember that. Jesus went to Calvary and was wounded in His hands and head; his feet. He was wounded for your transgression. Because you transgressed He had to be wounded. Stripes upon His back, He was chastened for your deeds. He was bruised for your transgressions. It pleased God to bruise Him and for my people was He bruised and the chastisement of your peace was laid upon His back so that you'd have peace all down through your life. (Singing.) Can you sing it with me? (Singing.) Sing that again. (Singing.) Can you sing it one more time? Sometimes you see me move my hands around like that. They lose timing with me. They don't move along kind of fast enough for the strokes and it really interferes with the singing, especially with the mood of the Spirit. And then we have intervals, stops, the music stops and starts, you know, in between songs. That should never be. We're in a mode of worship to worship God and we cone here and every person should be wide awake in Christ and doing something for God and they should be fully alert, fully aware of what they're doing and they should spend a lot of time at their instruments, or singing, praising God or whatever they're doing, studying the Word of God to make sure that when they come up here that everything is just right because we're doing this for Christ. You can be seated. I want to make reference to a Scripture this morning. First of all I'd like to say again that we're glad to have you here. We appreciate you coming out and being with us. I'd like to refer to First John the third chapter the ninth verse. It says, Whosoever is born of God. Sometimes this strikes a little bit hard when I quote this Scripture. Just to take it for a text I don't know that I have. But we're getting nearer and nearer the wonderful way of the Lord and things of God and getting near heaven. If you notice the mural has been taken down from up here. This mural of the garden. It has a great significance. Little Bethlehem the home of the mystery. And indeed it is. And everything that happens here has great spiritual significance. You know, it's not only that everything that happens here has great spiritual significance but everything around the world. The amazing thing is that everything that happens in your life has great spiritual significance. Everything that happens in your life, that happens in my life has great spiritual significance. You may not know that because you may not be spiritual. Paul said I would that you were spiritual. I'd like to speak unto you as though spiritual. And you pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation for as He said to the woman at the well in the book of John He said, in the fourth chapter, He said, Pray. He said that we should pray to God as a spirit and worship God as a spirit. The woman said, Well, we worship over here in this mountain. But He said that's not the way you worship. Somebody says, We worship over here in this city and we worship over here in this city. And we worship over here in this church. And we are with this denomination. But Jesus said that's not the way you do it. He said God is a spirit and God is above you, in you and through you. And God is everywhere. And God is a spirit, woman. He said, And they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth for God is seeking such to worship Him. So then, I would that you were spiritual. But here it says, Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin. It said, For the seed of God remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. Now. That sounds a little foreign to some of you and some of you it doesn't sound too foreign to. So I'd like to__ I'd just dwell on that for just a few minutes and I'd like for you to consider the things I'm saying this morning. He that is born of God doth not commit sin. This is one thing that I really use in my life as I judge ministers, as I judge laity, as I judge people. Whereas, someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, you don't have any right to judge. But see, you say that because you are ignorant. Paul said, I would not have you ignorant. The Bible said, Know you not that the saints shall judge the world. And the Bible teaches that judgment begins at the house of God. And that minister is a judge and he is set there to judge the world. And the Lord said, I have set thee, even to the prophets, I've set thee to pluck up and to plant. I've set thee over the nations. And then it is said of the ministry that whosoever sins you remit shall be remitted and whosoever sins you retain shall be retained. It is said, as to the church, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. So, great and mighty authority is given to the minister. It is said that it is not him speaking for he is the temple of God and it is God almighty speaking from within him; let all the world keep silent. And it is said that ye are the temples of God and this great wonderful radiating light that is emanating from you, this great light is the light of the knowledge of Almighty God. It is the mind and understanding of Almighty God. To let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. I ministered the other night as to what kind of mind is that. The kind of mind that is, is the mind that thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God. Can you image having such a mind in you? Jesus being made in the form of God, our overseer said. Paul. Jesus being made in the form of God, in the image of God, He thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God. He didn't seek a reputation. He didn't try to be something in the world. To the contrary he taught to come out from among the world and don't mix with the world. Don't mix with the world. In the Old Testament you didn't mix your garment. You didn't intermingle your garment. You did not take wool and try to mix it with some other kind of material. You didn't do that. It wasn't that you were to mix wool like with cowhide or something else. It wasn't to be fixed like that. You didn't intermingle your garments. We are sheep. We don't belong to the world. We're not to intermingle with the world and we were not to set a light among the dead, as it is. We were not to have, as it is today, a denominational thing of many churches and people that are dead in trespasses and sin while they are living and then we go around, as preachers, and go around as ministers and tell them that it is all right, that they are going to go to heaven, that God loves all of them and it doesn't matter if they spend their time at the races and the frolics, and half nude at the beaches and doing the things of the world and being gullibly filled with the desire for the things of the flesh, which things God hates. You know, we're not to go around to do that for the people of the world. And yet there' s plenty of it. But when God describes those churches he says, All of My tables are filled with vomit. They are luke warm. They stand at the door, they don't go in and they hinder those that are coming. They don't perfect holiness in the fear of God. They are not holy in body as well as in spirit. And Paul said, I would present you body, soul and spirit blameless. He said, My tables are full of vomit. That is, They are lukewarm. I have spewed them out of my mouth. That reminds me of a vision that somebody just recently had and you remember when a brother passed away. He seemed to be a good man. Seemed to have gone to heaven. His son-in-law, which had converted during his lifetime, this particular fellow said, If it had not been for him I think I would have gone to hell. So he went into a dream. He had a dream and in the dream he saw this man and the man seemed very happy in a peaceful place and then he looked and saw the mother, which seemed to have been a sainted person before her departure. And then he saw, as it would be, some of the children, maybe sons or daughters or whatever. But he said he looked and one of the daughters was missing and said he said, Where is she? And they said, Well, she's not here. And said he came out of the dream real disturbed. Said, when he come out he just got on the telephone and he called this daughter, which was the sister and he said, You know, I didn't see you in heaven. Said, You were not there. So he perceived that he had seen a vision of heaven and it was said that it torn the person all, just tore her to pieces. She just lost her composure. Said, Because she was very religious. Very religious. But she was the type of person that didn't have any holiness in her life. Doing the things that pertain to the body, as it is today, doesn't really matter, you know. You don't have to be holy anymore. You can do anything you want to. You can run along the beaches half nude. You can go to the ball games and enjoy the frolics of the world and the Bible said the love of the world, if it's in you the love of God is not there. You can get into all of the parades, and make yourself a career in the world, though the Bible says come out from among them. You can be part of that. You can spend all of your life trying to push your children through the old houses of prostitution called college and turn them into sodomites and into cons and everything else. And you can do all of these things in the day we're living in. You can shove them into the hospitals to where they rip them down and treat them like dogs and pigs. It doesn't matter that's just a little ole body. But, you know, folks, when we get through all of it the Bible is still there. The word of God is still there. And the filth of the flesh still has to be eliminated and the body still belongs to God. And that body still is the temple of the living God. And the Bible said the man that defileth it him God will destroy. So then, we see that when we come to this thing of talking about not sinning there is something to that. Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, I'm a believer, therefore I do not sin. That doesn't mean that you don't sin. Somebody says, if you're a believer, Brother Pike, then you don't sin. That doesn't mean you don't sin. Just because you are a believer that doesn't mean that you don't sin. The Bible said if you believe there is one God you do well. The devil believes and trembles. So you can just shake hands with the devil; he believes, too. And you can join the crowd because there are millions of people, especially in this Charismatic world that we are living in that will do anything from shout, to sing, to dance, to do anything and yet they don't live for God. And as the old saying, water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. Folks, I've said this a lot of times, and I repeat it to you this morning. You can go and join all the hospitals you want to but if you're dying with a cancer or disease you're going to have to get some kind of something to be injected into you to kill that thing or you're going to die. And you can shake hands with all of the, we say in the church, pastors or preachers, or shake hands with all of the physicians but it isn't going to do you any good. They can admit you to the churches or to the hospitals, it isn't going to do you any good. But when you get God down on the inside of you and you get born again then you're going to be all right. And God is going to kill that germ of death on the inside and you're going to be a healthy person. But until you learn that you are doing nothing but wasting your time. You are going around with the love of the world in you and you're not living for God at all and that means that you are just wasting away, as the world says. And as David Paul was saying, all you're going to do is look back. In a number of years you're going to look back and say, Wasted years, oh how foolish. Wasted years. Years that you could have given to God but you've wasted them. I'm going to say something here that's going to be kind of strong for some of you and maybe not so strong as I would think. Maybe you're farther along. Maybe you're advanced more that I would think; who knows? Only God knows the heart of the man, the woman. The Bible said that we do know that God's eyes are throughout the earth beholding the good and the evil, going to and fro in the earth beholding the upright in heart to show himself strong in their behalf. So, this morning when I say this it might seem a little strong to some of you; to some of you it won't. But John tells us he that is born of God he doth not commit sin. And the one thing I said that helps me to be able to discern, when it comes to meeting ministers, is this one thing. The Bible says that if these men had stood in My presence they would have caused My people to turn from their sins. And then when I meet their congregations and I meet their followers and I meet their people and I see sin in their life and I see they're still carried away with the world and carried away with careers and carried away with the educational systems of today, and carried away with the frolics and the things of this life, as to the natural entertainments of life and carried away with securities when the Bible said make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof, see? To lay up your treasures in heaven where thieves don't break through and where moth doesn't corrupt for wherever your treasure is, that's your labor, there your heart will be also. You know, and I see these men and I think, now. I will look at one and I'll think, No. No, God didn't send him. I'm judging righteous judgment. I'm judging according to the Word. If he had stood in the presence of God he would have caused his followers to turn from their sins. And if he doesn't cause them to turn from their sins he didn't stand in the presence of God, neither was he sent of God for the Bible said he that God sendeth will speak God's word. He will speak God's word. He won't get up and tell Bible stories. And he won't prepare a well prepared sermon that he might feed the people some kind of left over meal from yesterday. The Bible, it tells us that when they were getting the manna from heaven God was saying get fresh manna every day. Don't try to hold it back or it will get wormy on you. Folks, and this is where the problem is. When you try to be a Bible scholar and you try to spend all of your time in learning, whether it's in seminary or wherever it is, and in your experiences of life, all you do is hold it back as the manna of yesterday. And you're not walking in the spirit and you are not living a life to where everything is fresh with you every day. And you are not getting this wonderful fresh bread from heaven and when you go to give it to the congregation it's old and stale. See? And there is no quickening to it. There is no God inspiration to it. There is no understanding to it. The Bible said all of them that be born of God are of a good understanding. But it said the world with all of their understand, or knowledge as we call it, it has no understanding, as to real godly understanding. There is no understanding in those people. It's the blind leading the blind. They all fall into the ditch. They are ever learning and never come to the knowledge of the truth. So God says, Jacob, thou worm, I will help thee. And in the first birth, as to the man Adam, the fallen, then everybody is a worm. Jacob the apple of God's eye was referred to as a worm. Everyone on their belly. Why are they on their belly? The Bible says because all of their labor is for their belly because their belly craves it of them. Their mouth craves it of them. So, God has made them like unto a worm, or like unto the fallen one, liken unto the serpent. The worm refers back to the serpent, the fall through Adam. So in Adam all die. All flesh has corrupted it's way. There is none good, no not one. All have gone astray. All have turned to their own way. Every man has turned to his own quarter for his own gain. As you think of yourself as one way, God thinks of yourself as another way. And here when you look at yourself you look at yourself as the all sufficient one, the man of the hour, the woman of the hour, that which is to be praised, that which is to be admired, the great woman of career, the one that is fascinating, the man that's fascinating, the one that has the answer, ought be the president, should be among the ecclesia. So we're choking to death off of ourselves. When God looks at us He looks at us like this, the rejected one, the worm on your belly. All of your labor for your belly, feeding from the dust. In Adam all die. Under your lips is the poison of asps. Your tongue is full of deceit. You're feet are swift to shed blood. You're eyes are full of destruction and misery and the way of peace you've never known. You're thoughts are continually evil and God sees you like that unless you meet Jesus, unless you are born again, unless you come to Calvary, unless you accept the death of the Lord Jesus. And unless you are buried in the lovely name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, in that there is remission of sin in none other name. And beginning at Jerusalem, as we say, and to the uttermost parts of the earth, remission for sin shall be taught in that lovely name. See? And unless you make contact with Him. Unless your spirit makes contact with the great spirit of the living God then, though you be a believer you still aren't on the right road. You've got to receive the infilling of the lovely Holy Spirit. There is but one spirit, that is the Christ Spirit which is the Holy Ghost. And if you have not the Holy Spirit, which is His spirit then you are none of His though you believe. If you start believing you're on the right trail. Keep on believing and after awhile if you be a true believer, if you be one of the elect, if your name was written down in the Lamb's book of life before the foundation of the world, if God through the telescopic vision looked down and saw you like He did Jacob then He wrote your name down in the Lamb's book of life and you are one of His elect and you'll come right on to receive His spirit. So you are the right kind of believer. Otherwise, you'll be like Esau. Esau have I hated. I hate Esau, He said. Before the children were ever born into the world, having done no good or evil that it might stand according to election of him that calleth and not of him that willeth and run. So He said, Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated. He said to you, And I saved you while you were yet in your sins. Before you ever called on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ God saved you. He saved you by foreknowledge. And as Paul said, Greet my women workers whose name are in the Lamb's book of life, even while they lived and walked here in the earth. And as it was said to Judas, I've chosen twelve and one of you is a devil, let another his bishopric take. Before he was ever born into the world it was said, let another his bishopric take. Though he was exposed to the church, though he was with the great move of God, though he was with the great men of God, though he saw the great mighty things of God; yet he was a devil. Though the devil had not entered into him and he was just like you. Satan had not entered into him but predestinatingly (?) speaking God foresaw his future and God has seen that he was a devil, that he would go after money and that he would go after the world. He would even betray the Lord Jesus Christ for forty pieces of silver. So then, at the super it said that Jesus gave them sop. When he gave him the sop Satan entered into him. See? And that's what's going to happen to you. You don't know it yet because it's the days of grace and the blood is on the seat of atonement. And that blood atones for all the world. And while that blood is there God doesn't see the sins of anybody. Jesus died to take away the sins of the world and He doesn't see the sins of anybody, for when He sees the sins of one the person is devoured, that quick. As when He saw that in the Old Testament the earth opened up and swallowed them up and they never did go into Canaan. Swore that they would not enter into their wrath because of their murmuring and complaining and looking back into Egypt and having their mind on the things of the world. So then, I said all of that to say this: that we understand then that this thing is by predestination. It's without repentance. You don't get to God through repentance. All of the world repents at one time or another. The Bible said even Esau sought repentance but could not find any place of repentance. (Begin tape one, side two.) Even Judas couldn't find any repentance. All of the world seeks repentance but that doesn't mean that they find repentance. They say I'm sorry God. I pray God. Forgive me God, but they don't find any repentance. But we, who are saints of God, that make intercession daily as standing in the stead of Christ while He is gone from His bodily presence, we are interceding and making prayers to God. And making intercession to God that God would grant repentance to them that are without, whether our loved ones or just the people. We are a royal priesthood here in His stead because His bodily presence is gone. We are bone of His bone. We're flesh of His flesh with the membership of the great God body. Having this mind in us that because of Him we are equal to God through this wonderful thing. Oh, someone says, Brother Pike, that's blasphemy; before the living God I could never accept that. That's because you're ignorant. Paul said, I would not have you ignorant. Let this mind be in you. God said, I want this mind in you. Let this mind be in you. Make some effort. Don't run around in fear of these kind of things. Take the Word and faith in the Word. Whatever the Word says, whatever God tells you, take this mind into you. Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who being made in the form of God thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God. So then, God hath made us equal with Himself by His own virtue, by His own righteousness. And when they said, What must we do to work the works of God He said, I'm the works of God. This was finished from the foundation of the world. The Lamb that was slain. The blood put on the seat of atonement. All of the world is free. But, Brothers and Sisters, as I remind you again we're down at the end of the church ages and that blood is fixing to come off of the mercy seat. And when that blood comes off of the mercy seat these millions of people that have healing medicines, they'll never have it anymore. The won't have enough sense to make one bottle of healing medicine because they only reflect your wisdom through the blood that's on the seat of atonement, the great wisdom of God. They only have allowance of grace because of you. But they do have this grace. They can shout, they can speak in tongues, they can dance, they can feel the presence of God. It's in them above the and through them, the Bible says. In Him we have our bearing. Paul told them that at Mar's Hill. Now, when they worshipped the unknown God. So, we see that they have all the benefits of the medical world, which things God has given from His wonderful mercy to the animal part of man, because it has, as of yet, not been changed. While as on the inside the inner man has been sealed and translated into the spirit of God and where we keep ourself and the evil one toucheth us not. So until the days of the infirmities are over, as to the animal part, then we have all of these things, the healing medicines the Bible speaks of. Even those that are godly that understand, as to a transitional way of life. But, as I said, the vultures have, they have boycotted around it and they've taken control of all of it and they run you through like a bunch of dogs and initiate you through the vomit and the filth and the mire like dogs and swine until you are one of them and then they rob you of everything that there is that you've labored for just to try to pay a bill. But, anyway, God is still watching after His people. He's still helping His people and still teaching us faith that we can continue to go on no matter what happens. I said all of these things to say this. Jacob have I loved. Are we going to continue in sin after we've come to know God, after we've been born again? After we've confessed that we're born again are we going to continue in sin? Are we going to continue to love the world and have the love of the world in us? If the love of the world is in us the love of the Father isn't there. Are we going to continue on in the world, to be part of the word and act like the world? Or is our body holy? Is our body the temple of God? Are they holy? Should we then come out from among them to be a separate people? or should we continue on in the world? Should we continue on in sin? Paul said, God forbid. How can we that are dead to the world and dead to sin live any longer therein? Jesus died to sin one time, and in that He is resurrected and He lives He lives unto God to never sin again. And if I'm no longer that which I was in Adam, as to my first birth, but I am dead by the body of the Lord Jesus and I'm buried into baptism having put on Christ then that man that I was first lives no more. He is dead. He is the despised image. He has the poison of asps under his tongue. He is dead. He's gone. He is destroyed. The old body of sin is forever destroyed and I am divorced from the old, as to the law. I am not married to the law. Though I was under the law by the fall of Adam, I am not bound by the law anymore. Know ye not that a woman is bound to her husband so long as he liveth. And only when he is dead is she free from that law that she should be married to another. Now. I am free from the law of sin and death. I free from that law and I'm not bound to it anymore. I am dead to the law and the law is dead to me. And the Lord came to deliver me from the law. Though He came to deliver the Jews they didn't understand Him as the Messiah, to give the Gentiles a chance and they won't come back until Daniel's last week. But we did receive Him and therefore if I am dead to the law, how then can I sin? How can I sin? Am I to go on sinning after I've been born again? Can I be unborn? My first birth; can I be unborn from my first birth? I can't. I could die but I cannot be unborn. That's impossible. If then in my second birth I'm born of the second man Adam, the quickening spirit, if I am by the washing of the regeneration through the washing of the water of the Word changed over and I'm in a new generation, then it is not I that liveth, as the old which was in the generation of Adam, but I am alive forever more for it is I that liveth, as Christ, and yet not I that live but Christ that lives within me, and the life I now live in my flesh, I live it by the Son of God. So it's not I that liveth but Christ that lives within me. So then, I'm in a new generation. I am dead by the body of the Lord Jesus to sin and to the law. Or, that is, I am dead to the law which makes me free from sin because sin is the transgression of the law and that was the purpose of Jesus coming, to destroy the works of the devil. He was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. And he went to Calvary and He did destroy the works of the devil. Not only did he destroy the works of the devil but this is something we need to understand, children of God. It's hard for us to conceive of this. It's hard to conceive of it unless God reveals it to you. But the law is no more. We as Pentecostal people and people of the church world, always, everywhere I've ever been in all of the churches, it's always been the same. They continue to try to fulfill the law, and they continue to try to live under the law. And though they don't confess that and they say they don't acknowledge that; yet they do. I've watched them. And all of their efforts are toward their own physical exuberance of trying to live what they call the holy life. There's nothing wrong with trying to live a holy life. There's nothing wrong with that but I do have some news for you. That news is that you will never live a holy life. There is no such thing as you living a holy life. There has never been the man that ever lived the holy life. Even Jesus, Himself, as a fleshly being in the likeness of you made the statement, it is not I that doeth the work, but it is spirit on the inside. It is God's spirit. You can live the life of a man if you are a man. You can live the life of a woman if you are a woman. An animal can live the life of an animal because it has an animal nature. But until you get the nature of Christ you will never live the life of Christ. It takes the life of Christ as a nature on the inside of you to make itself manifest in these mortal genes, to bring this body into subjection to Christ. That's the only way that you'll ever live it. Paul said, I keep under my body and I bring my body under subjection lest after I preach to other I myself become a cast away. So then, if you're going to live a Christian life you're going to have to have Christ's nature of the inside of you and it will automatically live the Christian life. You will never be holy and godly of your ownself. All of your works is as filthy rags. It doesn't matter what church you belong to, or what group you belong to, or how long you've been there. It has nothing to do with it. It doesn't matter if you die. If you die and rot and the worms eat you; that doesn't make you any better. You're not going to come forth any better. You are just as good as you'll ever be. You're just as bad as you'll ever be while you are alive. The dead know not anything. That has nothing to do with it. God wants a people that won't even go by the way of the grave. Paul said, Behold I show you a mystery. We're going to come to an understanding and realize the strength of this wonderful Word and the wonderful knowledge of God and we're going to change in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye from this mortal body into this immortal body that Christ promised because we are no longer the mortal body in the sight of God. We are now the immortal body in the sight of God. And we are no longer in this earth as the man, woman that we see each other to be with these little twenty-two conductive nerves from the eye to the brain. But we are at the right hand of the Father and we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh and waiting to be presented, as to the world for the world does not see us for it does not yet appear what we shall be, as to their eyes, but we are already sons of God. Already have passed from death unto life, abiding in this tabernacle. And this body doesn't count. It's dead. It's buried. It's gone forever. And now that body is our body and God sees us as that body and that bone and that flesh. And I am now a new creature. I have been crucified with Christ, buried with Christ and the body of sin is now dead and has been destroyed. And I am now resurrected a new creature, buried in the likeness of His death, having put on Christ, being baptized into Christ. And now here I am as the body and bone and flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not me living but Christ when I speak as the oracle of God, I speak. And so then, here I am. Now I dwell in heaven. Oh, somebody says, Brother Pike, you must be eccentric. No, your just ignorant. Paul said I would not have you ignorant. So then, I dwell in heaven. You that love God you dwell in heaven for the Bible said the law and the prophets were until John, since that time you have been translated into the marvelous kingdom of God. You have been translated into the Kingdom of heaven. And what is the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of heaven but the Spirit of Christ. And you're spirit, God is a spirit. You worship Him in spirit. Your spirit has been taken out of your body by the washing of regeneration and through new birth and your spirit has, like safe guard in a garment Christ has gone into your spirit. Your spirit becomes interwoven with His spirit and you are one spirit. And you are sealed to where the devil can never touch you and you keep yourself that the evil one touch you not. So you are interwoven with Christ. And Christ is the Kingdom of God. From Christ who was the fullness of God all things emanate, all things come, the great treasures of life. So then, we are translated into the Kingdom of God as it was with Enoch. By faith he was translated that he should not see death. We, spiritually, have been translated into the Kingdom of God by a spiritual birth, taken from the first man Adam, a living soul, a mortal body and we have been translated into a spiritual body even the second man Adam, which is a quickening spirit and my mortal body is now dead by the body of the Lord Jesus and put out of the presence of God because He hates my image and He hates your image because it comes as from the worm in the first birth of that of Adam. I know, we pamper the flesh and I know the flesh is dolled up and the flesh is educated. And the flesh, everything for the flesh, but nevertheless, soon it withers up, soon it's thrown to the worms and where is all of this great wonderful you and I? God hates it, that's why death prevails, but this message is to take you over that to where death has no power over you. We through Christ have passed that, and we through Christ are beyond that despised image. There is a natural body and a spiritual body. Having born the image of the earthy of the first man Adam to tabernacle in that, as a spiritual being, Peter says we will also bear the image of the heavenly, the second man Adam, as to that divine change coming down to the end of the church ages. So, when we come to what we are in the sight of God that doesn't even appear to your eyes, my eyes. But we are already sons of God. We are already eternal. We are already passed from death unto life. We have already become sons of God and we are already dwelling in heaven. We are already dwelling in heaven. And we are they that dwell in heaven. Rejoice forever more, ye that dwell in heaven, speaking to your angelic being, which is in this little tabernacle that's composed out of the elements and the minerals of the earth. From the dust it is, to the dust the little cocoon shall go, back to the dust. So, from the dust to the dust. So then, we find that now we are a new creature. Paul said, Now, yield your members as they that are alive from the dead, as a new creature, the body creature. And as a new creature unto God old things have passed away. Behold! All things are new and now you are in a new world for you are in heaven. And everything is passed away at Calvary. That's why Peter said you are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. Two thousand years and the world passed away with water, two thousand years and the world passed away with blood. And Peter said ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come and here we are in the church ages. Here we are in heaven, dwelling in heaven. Dwelling together, sitting together in heaven while the rest of the world has fallen from grace. They are still out there in those things of the lower way of life and the baser sort, nothing but animals. But here we are shut in with God. Like the song writer said, Shut in with God in a secret place. So, saying just a few more things here because we don't really have time to get into the sermon. That takes a long time. But here we are, folks. And we find out that we made it. Low and behold! we made it. Somebody says, But, Brother Pike, you've got to give us time. Wait a little longer, Jesus, until we get our loved ones in and we're working on this thing. We just go to the ball game on the side and maybe it isn't exactly right but there is no sin to it. So we're gradually working our way in, you know, and we're thirty years old, we're forty years old, we're fifty years old. We're still working on it. We've just got a little problem. Folks, don't be stupid. You're never going to work yourself into anything. That's stupidity. The thing is you believe your way into it. You believe your way into it. The way that you're saved is not because you are a believer, as a natural believer with your natural human senses. A believing, that is a something as a derivative of your human senses, your five senses. If you believe that way so does the devil. But by the faith of Jesus Christ, the Bible said the faith of Jesus Christ which is the righteousness of God. This faith, Paul. Turn my people from intellectual darkness unto this wonderful God light unto the faith which is in Me, or by me, by which they are sanctified once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, by THE faith. That faith. Now that this faith has come I have folded up the law. I have fulfilled every jot and every tittle. It is not to pass away until every jot and tittle is fulfilled. I have come, I've fulfilled it. I've folded it up; I've laid it away. Now, folks, pray the Kingdom of God come, Thy will be done on earth as in heaven. That is, He said to the people, I'm fixing to go to Calvary. I'm folding up the law. And He said concerning Herod, Today I do cures, the third day I'll be perfected. Or, that is, I fulfill the law. The church will then be secure. I'll fold up the law, as to my body. I'll lay it away. I'll die out of the presence of God because before that Shekinah leaves Me, as to exchange places with you and take your sinful body as God forsakes it that you might take My body for righteousness for ever. I have lived from the manger into glory, the right life and the church is now finished forever. I'm going to step back down out of glory and I'm going to die out of the presence of God so you'll never die out of the presence of God and you can be what I am in glory forever. And He that knew no sin was made sin, even our sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. So then, when God looks upon us we're the apple of His eye and we realize that He went and folded up the law, fulfilled every jot and suddenly the Kingdom came. The law and the prophets until John then the Kingdom and it shined in darkness to them that set in the regions of the shadow of death of intellectual darkness from the fall, as to the old tree of knowledge. Great light has sprang up unto them that set in the regions of the shadow of that condemnation of death. The day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And this great light has come and this is the condemnation that's in the world, that men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. And this will be the condemnation. In the day of judgment they will cause you to be lost. Not your dos and don'ts. So then, the law is folded up. He fulfilled every jot and tittle. It passed away. Now it is no more. Paul said, We therefore conclude that a man is justified by the grace of God through faith without the deeds of the law. And He came to save us from the law. I am dead to the law by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Shall sin then have dominion over me? Paul said don't let it reign in your mortal body. Sin shall not have dominion over you. The devil shall not dominate you and have dominion over you with threats. Sickness, no sickness. Sin, no sin. For what is sin? The transgression of the law. And where there is no law there is no transgression. And Jesus fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law. That spirit is inside of me, the great Holy Spirit and I now have the righteousness of God which is the faith of Jesus Christ. And the law is now fulfilled to God's pleasure and the body of sin is now dead to His pleasure. And I am free as a new creature to dwell in heaven, to rejoice forever more, ye that dwell in heaven, the Bible says. So then, that means that every jot and tittle of the law is fulfilled. It's gone. Sin can't have dominion over you because you cannot sin. You cannot sin. There is no way you can sin. He that is born of God cannot sin for God's seed, which is the word of faith for Christ, the Word, lives inside of the heart and remaineth. He doesn't just come and go. He remaineth in the heart and you, in your inner man, has been born again and you can't be unborn and you can never sin again. Never sin again. In the foreknowledge of God, God slew the Lamb in His foreknowledge, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, wrote your names down in the Lamb's book of life, gave you eternal life, sealed you in to where the devil could never touch you and then sent the preacher to call you from out from among the animals of the world, the beast of the world and the old tree of knowledge to tell you of your inheritance of the great things that belong to you. So, beloved, you cannot sin because you cannot transgress the law. Where there is no transgression there is no sin. And where there is no law to transgress how can you transgress? So, if there is no law there is no transgression. And since the transgression of the law is sin, where there is no transgression there is no sin. So then, by the body of Jesus I am dead to the law. That was my sins. Delivered for my offenses, raised again for my justification. So as I went to Calvary from the wrath of God through the body of Jesus I was resurrected through his love over here when the body of Jesus came out and my spirit translated into his spirit, and that body is at the right hand of the Father and I'm going through the tutoring of the schooling that God has given me, through the minister, to transformate in the mind from glory to glory until I come to the full understanding to comprehend the heights, depths, the width and the length, or to wit the redemption of this body which is already the purchased possession, wrapped in His blood. And when I come to the end of this through the church ages, and you come to it, the body is going to be changed, just like that. Because we're not going to come to something where death doesn't have anymore power over us, nor where sickness doesn't have anymore power over us. We're not going to come to a special time of a special thing, or a special person, or whatever. All of that is finished. That was Calvary. We're only moving in to the enlightenment of the understanding through the transformating of the mind, to grasp, to comprehend the heights, depths and widths, given to us in Christ before the world ever was from the blood of the slain Lamb, preached to us through the church ages and we comprehend it down through the church ages that we might receive the benefits at the end of the church ages to the change as a confidence of faith, or heart, in what we have been tutored, or taught toward the diplomacy of our schooling. So, this is the way it is, folks. We're right down at the end of the church ages and the church is fixing to come out from all of this denominational stuff that's got them bound with traditions to where they are just going over and over the same old thing like a bunch of children. And it's not that they are wrong, in the sense of the Word. Some of them have high standards, do great things but they are not advancing and they are not growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus. They are not going on to the revelational understand of the translation according to our great overseer Paul, which had the revelation of the Lord Jesus and said pray that God will grant you the spirit of revelation. So they're not going on to make the rapture and they're not going on to have the faith for the translation and they're like little babies. And then others are just taking yesterdays manna and it's becoming wormy because it's becoming a denominational thing of the seminary and a diplomacy and an experience of a group of people. And being wormy it means it's got into the intellect and it's just become a knowledge. Which means being in their intellect, God referring to Jacob as a worm, the bread had gotten wormy. So it's gotten intellectual and that's all it is. It's just passed down from one college and one schooling and one sermonette to another, and they're not getting fresh manna every day. Well, let's stand together. He that is born of God cannot sin. It didn't say He might not sin. It didn't say if he holds on tight he won't sin. It didn't say that he'd sin today, fall away and we'd have another revival and he'd come back next week. The Bible said I've healed your backsliding. Woe unto you; I am married unto the backslider. And when you are married unto God that don't mean that you're going to be lost. Backsliding then in our day, God just refers to it in one way. You're children and because you don't apply yourself you are going to go by the whipping post and be corrected for every son and cometh to Me I'm going to scourge him. You don't live good enough that you don't get a chastising from God. So then, he that is born of God cannot sin because we are sanctified once and for all by the faith of Jesus Christ, the offering up of the body. We are not sanctified daily unto salvation. Though people teach that, they just don't understand. Someone said, But, Brother Pike, don't you believe in a daily sanctification? The Bible said sanctify yourself daily and he that God sendeth will speak that to you. That's God's Word. But that daily sanctification is by you faith as to you putting away the filth of the flesh and you making manifest in your mortal genes this heavenly treasure of this great wonderful enlightening understanding of Almighty God to change that body, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. That's the perfection Paul said for you to do on to, to make manifest in your mortal genes what you already are in your body. But in your body you are already born again by the faith of Jesus Christ, sanctified once and for all and your daily sanctification has nothing to do with your salvation. So then, we keep ourselves and the evil one toucheth us not and we cannot sin because we are born of God. When we stumble and stagger he deals with us as children. Be quick to repent, be zealous for God's sake. But always remember one thing, children. You're still children of God. You've always been children of God in the foreknowledge of God. You'll always be children of God. It doesn't matter how much the wolf huffs and puffs. He won't blow your house down. And the rains won't get it; it's built on the rock, the solid rock of this teaching that we're bringing forth which is Christ. Your faith is established in that. God loves you, so loved you that He gave His only begotten Son that you should believe in Him and not perish. (Begin tape two, side one.) So then you are secure like a little baby. You might not know much, you might not have come to as much as others, thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold. Go on to the full reward of the full measure of the full stature to the full reward. It's for you. But the thing is, you might not have come to these things, but you are God's little ones. Just nurse the breast of El Shaddai, the breasted one. See? Desire the sincere milk of the word that you might grow thereby. The meat belongs to the strong, they who by reasoning exercise their senses to be able to discern between good and evil to get into the revelation of this great wonderful mystery world. God is a mystery. Great is the mystery of godliness. For God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world and caught up. So just remember that you are God's people. You are God's people all the time. His Word is the same yesterday, today and forever. His Word never changes. Peace on earth and good will toward you, Jesus said, eternally and forever. I never change that. I never alter that. By My stripes you're healed. I never change that. I never alter that. I never change. Your mind changes, your feelings change, according to your feelings. That's why we have to do the things that we do to confident our heart so our believing won't change and rob us of the wonderful things that are given to us in the faith of Christ. It never changes. So then, you have these treasures eternally and forever but He so fixed it so that the evil ones cannot get in and the make believers cannot get in. He so fixed it to where you have to do the things that pertains to the conscience. Keeping always the conscience void of offense toward God and man and doing the things that confidence the heart, they confident the heart. You have confidence in God that He hears you. Then you have the petition you desire and know all things. For He has given you all things that pertain unto life in Christ. That way it puts a stop to the others. Because if you have the nature of Christ it's going to do the things that please God. You may stumble and stagger like a baby but the blood takes care of all of that. But you will be doing the things that please him. You'll always want to do it. It will be the love of God and not the love of the world. And the others that make believe, they'll never be able to keep that conscience clear. It will just be a Charismatic way of life, thinking that they can take the world in and the flesh in and all these things. Still believe, somebody says, which is our natural believing. And that they will still get the blessing, which they will, the grace, as to the blood on the atonement and this day of grace that will last through the church ages, healing medicines and everything else. But the Bible says they've turned the grace of God into lasciviousness. Which means they lavishly sport their own prestige and their diamonds and pearls, taking advantage of God. And they change the truth of God into a lie. That is, they pervert it to try, as Satan did, telling Jesus to cast Himself down to destroy with it, or to use it for a perverted means as to set a light by the dead, saying, you're all right when you are all wrong, which was an abomination in the sight of God. In the Old Testament to set a light by the dead that was an abomination. We don't set a light by the dead; they're in trespasses and sin. They're dead while they live. But you are alive forever more. You made it. You made it. You made it. Every thing has passed over and the wrath is gone. You are dwelling in heaven. You made the translation and God translated you into his marvelous kingdom. Now he's transformating your mind to a tutoring, as through patience, whatever you're going to get, Thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold, that you might make this manifest in your mortal genes to the change that that wonderful light of the great wisdom of God might eradicate the shadows of the earth, as to the evils, the debauchery and bring in the great millennium of the restoration of all things that the worm, which is the intellectual has destroyed. Let's sing a little chorus together. We're glad to have you here with us this morning. As you can tell, probably can tell, that I'm just a little bit tired this morning. When you fight with the devil all night it makes you a little bit tired. But we're more than conquerors through Christ who loves us and gives Himself for us. And this is the victory, as I preached the message the other night. And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith. Your faith. Don't look for any works. Don't look for anything else, just your faith. Your faith is the victory. And that faith will give you the desires of your heart. Delight yourself in me and I will give you the desires of your heart. My blessings will make you rich and add no sorrow. Don't go after the world; go after Christ. Seek the kingdom first, all of the rest will be added unto you. All right. Let's sing a little chorus or two. The altars are open while we sing. (Singing.) Can you sing it with me? (Singing.) Can you sing it? (Singing.) Sing it with me again now. (Singing.) Sing that with me. (Singing.) One more time. (Singing.) Can you sing it with me? (Singing.) Let's lift our hands up together. Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing.) Again now. (Singing.) Can you lift your hands up, close your eyes? (Singing.) All together, now. I'm going to ask Brother Richard the Jew to come up. (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord