The Abolishment Of Death

I always appreciate the hearty welcome. Let's just sing a little chorus together. It must be close to seven, I guess. It looks like it started to rain just a little bit outside. Danny was telling me that he had a dream that a tornado hit. He said that in the dream it was one of the worst he'd ever seen. He said in the dream that I didn't seem to be worried about it, that I felt like everything would be all right and I feel like it will. If anything hits God will take care of it. But, well, they were having a little problem down in Florida. It turned into, I think, a tornado, or some kind of a little storm came in down there and turned into a hurricane or something. Usually off of that we usually get some bad weather and they reported some was headed for the Carolinas but you can't ever tell. You know, you hear so many different things until you can't hardly even pay attention to the news media anymore. I do know that this kind of weather this time of year, hot and cold weather mixing together, it does cause a problem. That's usually where your bad weather comes from. But God He's with us and He'll help us. It's good to be here tonight. It's good to see our Brother from Africa is still here with us. Brother Simeon. And we certainly enjoyed this morning the things that Simeon said. I didn't get to hear, actually, what he said this morning but I talked with him a few times just before then and it was real wonderful. And David, I think__ I think David is here tonight. He talked with him quite a bit and they had a lot of fellowship and he said that Brother Simeon was real informative about those things around Brwanda, and the places where so many people are being killed. And as I said this morning, he has some kind of film or the river that runs with blood where so many people have been thrown into it. Well, it's good to be here tonight. David of old said I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. And I'm always glad. I'm always glad to come to the house of God. So, we come here for one purpose and that is to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus. And I know a lot of people say, Well, I go to church because I want to give something to God and I just want to have that feeling of knowing that I've been to the house of the Lord over the week-end. But here at Bethlehem we don't do that. We come to the house of the Lord to grow. The Bible says to grow in the grace of God but it tells us that we must grow in the knowledge of God. And we come here to try to grow in the knowledge. If I, or any other minister, if we get up here and we speak to you and you listen, you say, I hear it all. I hear every bit of it. That's fine. That's excellent. That's wonderful. I'm glad. God is glad. But, folks, the Bible said take heed how that you hear. And you can hear the trumpet as it gives an uncertain sound. It will give an uncertain sound to you and our voice is a trumpet. The Bible said lift up thy voice like a trumpet. So, there is a trumpet sounding in the land and there is one trumpet that is not just our trumpet but it is the trump of God. And the Bible said the Lord Jesus, Himself, shall descend from heaven with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first and we which are alive and remain shall be changed in the moment in the twinkling of an eye, caught up to meet Him. So shall we ever be with the Lord. And so then, if I come here, or someone else comes here and if we are anointed of God, then the Bible says it is not us that speaketh unto you but God within His temple. Let all the world keep silent for God is within His temple, whose temples ye are. And God is speaking from His temple. And if any man deny that Christ has come in the temple then he is Antichrist. And God speaking from within His temple, the Bible said let God be right and every man be a liar if he go contrary to that. And the Bible said ye are the light of the world. I've set you as the light of the world and that you ask of me I'll give you the heathens for an inheritance and they all will come and kneel at your feet and I will make them to know that I've loved you. I'll make your enemies to be at peace with you. If your ways please Me though they come out against you one way I'll make them flee before you seven ways. Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people. America the great. It has been and she still is to some degree but down through the years she has exalted Christ. She has always loved the Lord and because of her love for God, God has exalted her. For the Bible says, Because thou hast loved righteousness God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. And America was lifted up in such a great way that she has been able to lend to many nations. Which again fulfills the Scripture of the twenty-eighth chapter of the book of Deuteronomy when the Lord spoke to the Jewish people and said to them, If you will honor me and do the things I tell you, He said to three million people that He brought out of Egypt, He said, I will not bring upon you any of these things I brought upon Egypt. Or that is, the original rendering, I will not allow these things to come upon you. I will take care of you. He defeated seven nations before the Israelites and He tells us that if our ways please Him that He will make our enemies to be at peace with us. He won't request it. He'll make them to be at peace with us. So He told them, He said, I'll make you the head and not the tail and ye shall lend to many nations and ye shall not borrow. But then if you do not obey me, He said, I'll make you the tail. And so He did. He made Israel the tail to the extent that Israel has had to borrow from nations and look to nations because she failed to honor God. But He's going to pick her up one of these days when He finishes with the Gentiles. Having been blinded in part they're the enemy of God for your sake, as the Gentile people. But the Bible said, as pertaining to Israel and Jacob and Abraham and the promises, they are beloved for Christ's sake. And as it is written, out of Zion it shall go forth, the deliverer, and turn ungodliness away from Jacob and the whole house of Israel shall be saved. But the Bible said if these ministers had stood in my presence, if they'd really been sent of God, they would have spoken My Word and they would have turned the people from their sins. The way that you can tell that a minister is not sent from God is that he will never preach against sin. He will never turn the people from sin. He will just go through some kind of order of getting their admiration and their following and this kind of thing, their support, and that will be all there will be to it. But, anyway, Israel must come back as the head of the nations after God has purged and put her through the fire. Said, I'll put Jacob through the fire. The tribulation will bring them into the millennium to be the head of the nation, whereas they will judge all nations, judging people by the law of Moses, in that our law is a derivative from the law of Moses. All laws come from that and they'll be charged with a conspiracy against the nation of God and against the laws of God and all the judges and all the laws of today will be brought into the supreme courts and they will be sentenced accordingly because they have used the place for a frolic and they have changed the wonderful laws of God into a corruptive thing. Solomon said, I looked and I saw in the places of judgment there was corruption and there really is. Now. So, it's a privilege for us to come here knowing that we're sons of God and that the whole government of eternity rests upon our shoulders. It's not like we're telling a fantasy or some kind of fairy tale. The government of all eternity rests upon our shoulders. We are the sons of God. Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. It doeth not yet appear what ye shall be, as to sight, but it shall appear at the coming of the Lord Jesus. Every man that hath this hope within himself purifies himself even as He is pure, in that God purifies our hearts by faith. That faith of Jesus Christ. Then we know that we are sons of God already. We don't have to wait to become sons of God, we don't have to grow into sonship. We don't have to go on to try to become a son of God; we are already sons of God. All we are doing is making manifest in our mortal genes this wonderful heavenly treasure of sonship which is the great knowledge of Almighty God we're making it manifest in our bodies, in our mortal genes, from day to day by bringing the body unto subjection and teaching it to conform to this wonderful mind, as to make this heavenly treasure manifest in our mortal genes that it might change our mortal genes. And, of course, tonight we'd like to say one or two little things about that. Perhaps we won't get to go into it like we'd like to but I would like to say one or two things about it. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing.) Can you sing it with me? (Singing.) Sing it again, now. (Singing.) Is your heart glad? If your heart's glad then that's good because serving God is joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost. Let the Holy Ghost come into our service. John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. He makes the heart to rejoice and a merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (Singing.) One more time. (Singing.) Lets give Him a hand, can we? Come on, folks. Somebody say praise the Lord. Don't you feel the wonderful presence of God tonight? How wonderful it is to be a Christian? Indeed, serving God is joy. It is wonderful, wonderful joy. There's a jubilance in serving God. And, you know, as I talk with you just a little bit tonight I think you're going to understand a little better, as to the few things that we might bring to you to night. You can be seated and we'll talk to you just for a few minutes on one or two things and see if we can help strengthen your faith. Remember that now. We are helpers of your faith. This Bible is just a little bit big for this. But we are helpers of your faith. We want to help you and the only way that we can help you is to strengthen your faith. Now, I know a lot of people, you know, they feel like, Well, Brother Pike, you can help me. You can teach me not to do this and not to do that and that I should do this and I should do that. And that is true. We come to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord. That's very true. We are teachers. Paul said, I am a teacher and a preacher. But then, on the other hand there is really nothing that I, or anyone, can do for you, as pertaining to salvation. God hath wrought it all through the Lord Jesus Christ. And if His blood isn't sufficient for your cause then that means that you will never be saved. His blood is sufficient for all causes. And the Bible teaches that once you come to know him nothing can separate you from the love of God; not even the devil himself. And so that means that you are secure. But we are here as helpers of your faith. We're here to introduce you to faith in God so that you can find salvation. And then we're helpers of your faith because faith cometh by the hearing of the promises. And if you hear the promises, you believe the promises that is faith. And as it has been said, there are thirty-two thousand promises in here just in your behalf and when we preach the Word of God then you have to believe the Word of God for he that cometh to God must believe first of all that He is, or that there is a God. You must believe that there is a God. And then secondarily, you must believe that He is a rewarded of them that diligently seek Him. So, if you don't diligently seek God you're not going to get any reward. And if you do diligently seek God then you will be rewarded if you believe there is a God and you diligently seek Him. You must diligently seek Him believing there is a supernatural invisible power. And in doing that then He will reward you in everything you do. If you will acknowledge God in all of your ways He will direct your path into every phase of life. And if you will have the fruits of the spirit in your life you'll never be barren at any time. Never. All right. So if we confess our sins and forsake our sins whatever we do will prosper. Now, if you've got your Bibles you can turn over to second Timothy and over to the first chapter down about the tenth verse and I just want to bring this to your remembrance where it says, "by Jesus Christ". You find the Scripture there. Jesus Christ has abolished death. Think about that now, that word abolish. And He hath brought life and immortality to light. He hath abolished death and brought to light life and immortality. And we want to think on that for just a few minutes tonight. We'll try not to hold you long but I want you to think on the things that we're saying. Jesus Christ our Lord, our Savior. Thomas said, My Lord and my God. Now, think about that. He said, My Lord AND my God. To Israel there is one God, one faith. Now, the Bible said to us one God, one faith, one baptism and power of godliness in the name Jesus and remission of sin in His wonderful name, that to call upon His name is to be saved. And he said, My Lord and my God. That is, Thomas did when he realized that Jesus had resurrected from the dead. Then the question arises, How, Brother Pike, could he say my Lord and my God? How could he do that? Well, the way he could do that is that the Bible says that God made in Himself twain, or Jesus made in Himself twain. Though there is one God which is a spirit; yet the Lord Jesus Christ made in Himself twain. The word twain means two. He made in Himself two. Someone would say, Well, I can't see that, Brother Pike. He was God. How could he have made Himself twain? Or two? For that's what the Bible says. And the Bible said he that God sendeth will speak God's Word. How did He then do that? Where is the proof of that? He said, In your law. When He would do something and they would attack Him He would say, In your law it is said that every word should be established and in these two or three witnesses. Or the mouth of two witnesses. He said, Now, here is two witnesses. Said, I witness to it and My Father witnesses to it. See? That's two witnesses. Now, He said, Now, My Father is greater than I and it's not I that doeth the work but My Father within Me, He doeth the work. So, He made in Himself twain, both Lord and Christ. Both Lord and Christ. And this is why the great revelational thing came to me when God spoke to me a number of years ago when He said, Son, the temple was rent in twain. He said to them, He said, Destroy this temple and I'll raise it up in three days. And the Bible said it took a long, long time to build that temple. That is, the temple of God in that day. And He said, I'll raise it up in three days if you destroy it. And they thought, no man could possibly do that; this man must be a liar. But, see? The Bible said they understood not that it was actually the spirit, or the great Holy Ghost of Christ on the inside witnessing of Himself the temple, that the body was the temple. That it was the bodily temple. But the Bible said after His death and after His resurrection then they knew what He had said. They got the revelation of it. Destroy this temple, for the Bible said they went around seeking a way to destroy Jesus. And He said, Destroy this temple and I'll raise it up in three days. And He did exactly that. They rend the veil of that temple. You know, to rend something we say this will tear it in two. And that's what they did; they tore Him in two. They rent the veil of the temple. And someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, how could they tear Him in two? Because He was twain and that was the purpose of coming to Calvary. He had to be rent in twain. For the Bible said, And the veil of the temple was rent in twain. Or torn into two pieces. And how was that? You know, the Bible says don't cast your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and then they'll turn and rend you. Or that is, that they will take those tusks and they'll just rip you open. I remember a cast of years ago of a man out on the farm had a nice horse, or whatever it was, and a boar hog ran by and raised his head like that and hit him along in here and ripped his entrails out. I think they just fell out on the ground. See? He rent the beast. Now, to rend in twain; to rend. A swine would just tear you up. A wild hog would just tear you up. They say that they are terrible dangerous because of the strength they've got in their necks and the tusks. Now, I said that to say this. That's what they did to Jesus. The Bible said His countenance was marred more than any man. They started with His head and they put the thrones into His head; down into His skull. And then they plowed His back like a field and then they pierced His hand. The Bible said a mother may forsake her suckling babes but said, I will never forsake you. I've engraved you in the palms of My hand. You know, we said here not too long ago, they're always having a scientific dispute saying that nails would not hold anybody if you put them in the hands, so that Jesus actually did not take them in the hand; it would have torn out. They said that they put them right here but that isn't what the Bible says. He said, I've engraved you in the palms of my hands that I might never forget you. So then, when we think about this we know that He was rent in twain, His back plowed. His feet was pierced and His side was pierced with the spear. And His countenance marred more than any man. So He was literally rent. And the tearing in two, or the separation of the twain was that He made an inner man. Paul said Jesus Christ made in Himself twain. That is, he pointed out that He made within Himself an inner man, the second man, the Lord from Heaven; the Christ on the inside. When Peter looked at Jesus He said, Who do men say that I am? And they said the prophets, whatever. You know, they kept answering. Said, But, Peter, who do you think I am? Or who do you say that I am? And he said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Why? Because he'd looked beyond the veil. He'd looked beyond the veil. Now, that's when the veil was rent, right there. God gave him the keys to the Kingdom and he unlocked the door. He opened the door because Jesus said, I am the door to the sheepfold. And at the end of the church ages John looked and he saw this door in Heaven. And when He saw this door in Heaven then a voice said, Come up here. And what he did, he looked all the way down through the church ages and he saw what happened to see this door and entered into the spirit on the Lord's day, getting the foreknowledge and revelation of God, as to what was to happen in our day over here. And then there was Peter. Peter had unlocked this door for Jesus said to Nicodemus, No man ever came down from heaven except the Son of Man who went up to Heaven, or who is in Heaven, who dwells in Heaven. Or, that is, He said, Nicodemus, I'm still in Heaven. I'm in your presence but I'm still in Heaven. I am that door. And Peter unlocked that door and when he unlocked it Jesus said to him, It is because I've given thee the key, Peter. You've not received this as to diplomacies of school and college. This isn't something that came from man. He said, This is a revelation. This is something My Heavenly Father, which is a spirit, He hath given you this. He hath given you this. And so when Peter unlocked the door and there stood the great Christ. Then it was time for Him to go to Calvary. His identity could be concealed no longer. So, He went to Calvary and He pulled that vesture off and this way went the Christ man and this way went the Lord, which was the body that came to fulfill the law. This on the inside had fulfilled every jot and tittle. Here was now the body of this law, the tabernacle that, speaking of the Ark of the Covenant, speaking of the Christ on the inside, that between the two cherubs, which was Moses and Elijah and down this body went into the grave. So then, we see that when Aaron walked into the Holies of Holies and the curtains went back it had the covering cherubs on these curtains. It indicated that with the rent veil that Christ had come. It was symbolic of Christ entering into the veil and He went in with His beautiful garments on, the smell of that perfume that nobody could make any like and his little bells jingling on the skirts and Holiness Unto The Lord on the miter up here. And He went into a cloud, a beautiful cloud that had a perfume smell because He reached here at the golden altar and took that little censer where he had the blood, bringing if from the altar as the sacrifice. He picked up this little coal and he dropped it in here and swoooo went the cloud and the Lord was appearing in the clouds. The Bible teaches that when he went in during this period of time on that particular day, in that particular month (it was a standing thing of the seven of tenth that he went in there) and then when he would go in there and he returned hurriedly all was well and they would praise God. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! All is well. But if he tarried then it would mean it would be ill with the people when he came out because the judgments was upon them. It's like John's father; when he tarried long in the priests office the people were confounded because they knew something was wrong. He had had a visitation from an angel. So then, as I have said so many times, folks, we are filled with the Holy Ghost. Christ is living on the inside of us. He went away. He said, But I'll come again. I'll return unto you. The world won't see me. He said, but I'll be with you and the world won't see me for I will be in you. But I and My Father will come. We will return to you and we'll make our abode within you. And He came back real quickly. Went away and stayed ten days and then he came back, that is after the resurrection, seen of them forty days, caught up ten days and then he returned. But, folks, that meant a good time. That meant Pentecost. That meant that we had hallelujah, and healing and praises and glory and joy from God. But did you know, I've said this so many times, He still hasn't returned to the Gentile people, not even as of yet. He is tarrying long because the wrath of God is brewing for the people. It's brewing and He will destroy them and their image with the brightness of His coming. So, we see that the veil was rent in twain and the Christ was separated from the Lord. And Jesus had just said unto them__ They said, Teach us to pray. He said, Pray Father, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Where Jesus knew that He was the Kingdom for the Bible said the law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached. Or that is, the Kingdom has come and Jesus, Himself, witnessed. Said, Now has come great light, as to the fulfillment of the words of the prophet when he said, Great light has sprang up unto them that sit in the regions of the shadow of death. And Jesus said, Now, this is the condemnation that is in the world today, in the time of His administration, and that is that light has come into the world and you love darkness rather than light. You'd rather have the mind of the devil, folks, than to have the mind of Christ. That's what He was saying. And to them that sit in the regions of the shadow of death, the shadow of death was the law. David said, though I walk through the valley, that is of this world. God looking down from Heaven. I walked through the valley of the shadow. That is to say, the cloud representing good angels and bad angels. Both types represented there. And the war in Heaven and the lightning and the casting out and the thunders and all of these things that Revelation 12 speaks of. I walk through the valley of the shadow of death but I'll not fear any evil, he said, for thou art with me. Thy rod, which is the Word, and thy__ He said, Thy rod and thy staff, the staff which is the Holy Ghost, these, they comfort me. And thou preparest a table before me. The Bible said this is a feast of charity where we come and even those without really the Spirit of God can come in here without the wedding garment. They can actually get in here to this charitable supper. We brought it out the other night in a little teaching here. They can actually come in. They can climb up another way. They can come through the grace of the blood of Jesus being shed for the whole world to take away the sins of the world for a dispensational period and that's climbing up another way and not going through the Word of God, as to repentance. Because I say to you again, there is a dispensational grace that's given to everybody, that the rain may be on the just and the unjust to fulfill the prophetical utterance of Joel when he said it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And even your sons and daughters shall prophesy. (Begin tape one, side two.) ...and the vision he said would come and the dreams would come. Now, when we consider this then we know that we're living in that hour. But the son got the kingdom. Solomon in his day got the throne. So they will come in to the supper. He said, But if you come in without the wedding garment you'll be bound hand and feet and cast into the outer darkness. These things I said the other night and I just want to bring them around just a little bit here to make a point. But, anyway, here they came in to the supper. They don't have on the wedding garment. Why don't they have the wedding garment on? The Bible said as many as have been baptized into Christ they've put on Christ. If they've been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, since there is none other name given among men whereby ye must be saved and the remission of sin is by baptism and in the name, and the minister does that. As my Father has sent Me so send I you. Whosoever sins ye remit shall be remitted. Whosoever sin ye retain shall be retained. And Peter on the day of Pentecost said to those people when three thousand people were added to the church, in the first church, Repent, everyone of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin that ye might receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, which was the spirit of Christ which He said would come back in His name. For it is unto you and your children and to as many as be afar off, even the American people, that someday shall establish this government that we are enjoying today. What I say to one I say to all. When I bring Zion again they'll see eye to eye, they'll all speak the same thing. I know that in this life we've got all kind of people and all kind of teaching and everybody has got their own thing going. I know that. But it's just a money enterprise and some people are just plain ignorant. Paul said I would not have you ignorant. They are not willingly ignorant. Some are willfully ignorant and they've been turned over to a reprobate mind to believe a lie and be damned. Some are not willingly ignorant. They're just ignorant because they've never been taught. They don't understand and it's up to us to go into all the world and preach this gospel, the enlightenment that came at Calvary, to every creature. So then, you are baptized into Jesus Christ, thus you put on Christ. And the Lord said, Don't come here without that wedding garment. If you come into this charitable supper you'll be spots and blemishes. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. Make no provisions for the lust, or the desire, of the flesh. Speak the Word. Stay with the Word. Faith by the Word. Salvation by the Faith which comes by the hearing of the Word. So, when we look back then we know that the law and the prophets were until John and they said, Jesus, teach us to pray. And He said pray, Father, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as in heaven. Why did He do that? Because He knew that He was the fullness of God in the flesh for the Bible said God giveth not the spirit unto Jesus by measure. So then, here the Kingdom of God had come. It was now in the earth and He was about to reveal it so He said just pray. Now that the Kingdom has come we will say let your will be done. He knew He was fixing to go to Calvary. And when He went to Calvary what did He do? He came to take the Jews, or the people out from under the law. Did He take the Jews out from under the law? He took them out from under the law. They did not understand but by grace of God He still keeps them alive today. Though they go through their ritualistics, think they're serving God, there is no righteousness except one righteousness. When the two went up into the temple and one said, I thank Thee, Lord, that I fast. I pay tithe of all I possess. The other man beat on His chest and said, Have mercy on me, I'm a sinner. And the Bible said this man that begged for mercy went down to his house justified rather than the other because He said, Lest your righteousness exceed, or excel, the righteousness of the Pharisees and Scribes ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom, or inherit the Kingdom of God. Or that is to say, self-righteousness will not do. It has to be righteousness and the Bible said the righteousness of God by the faith of Jesus Christ. Said, For the faith of Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God. And Paul said, And the law of righteousness hath made me free from the law of sin and death. This law of righteousness which is in Christ, or the faith of Jesus Christ. And God said, Paul, I've enlightened you to the revelation. Turn my people from darkness unto light and unto the faith which is in Me by which they are sanctified. So, having sanctified us once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ He has perfected, or made perfect, forever them that are sanctified, having passed from death unto life. And I want to say a little bit along that line in just a few minutes. So, when we consider this what did He do? I remind you again, He said not one jot nor tittle of the law shall pass away until every jot and tittle be fulfilled. Every bit has to pass away. Heaven and earth can pass away, or will pass away, and it does at the end of the millennium. The Bible says the heavens pass away and the earth passes away and the sea passes away. He said, But My Word shall not pass away because in the beginning was the Word and from the Word emanated every thing. And today we're still founded from the foundation of the Word of the living God. So then, here He said I go to Calvary. He came to take us out from under the law. Today we're under grace. Why? Because the Bible said if there is a change of the law, which is from the law of sin, or sin getting it's strength by the law of Moses, now there is of necessity a change of the Priesthood. So now the law is grace. The law of righteousness, which is within me as to my new birth, now it's been change from the law that had control over my body for in my body there is no good thing. For to will inwardly is present but how to perform that which is good, outwardly or in my body, I find no way to do that. And I find a law that when I would do good evil is present with me. And the good that I would do I do not and the evil that I would not do I do. And for that which I do, which is the evil, I allow not. So, he said, if I do that which I would not do then it's no more I that doeth it but sin that dwelleth within me. Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death. He said, seeing that the law is weak, in that I cannot perform it in that I'm weak, sold in to carnality unto sin. The law being good and spiritual it cannot perform because of my weakness. Satan takes advantage. He said, And it not being able to do what I wanted it to do I thought it to be unto life but that which I thought to be unto life I found to be unto death. He said, And that which is good I found that sin, taking advantage over me because of my weakness and by that which is good working within me all manner of evil and concupiscence, O wretched man that I am. And he said, Who shall deliver me from the body of death? Then when he got the revelation he saw that the Lord Jesus came and he said, God, sending His Own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh__ Remember that, children. Sinful flesh. It is sinful flesh. All flesh is sin. Before God all flesh has corrupted it's way before God. God has laid upon Jesus Christ the iniquity of us all. There is none good; no not one. All flesh is sinful. A lot of people don't like that. They can't accept that. They can't digest that. They want have that. But God intends for you to have it or He's going to send you into a lake of fire. He means to have the glory and He said, As I live, saith God, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. He is not going to accept your person, your body. He said I hate your image. It is a bastard child image, in Adam all die. You are the fallen ones, upon your belly. The poison of asps under your lips and your tongue full of deceit and your feet swift to shed blood and misery and destruction is before your eyes and the ways of peace you have never known. All right. All of your labor is for your belly because your belly and your mouth craves it of you. So there is one blood cell that came to be in the womb of a virgin. And that blood cell was the mighty Holy Ghost blood cell that He Himself made and it was not a birth, as to the instrumentality of human beings, or as to the union of human beings. He was not begotten of the will of human desire. For the Bible said He was not begotten of the will of man but of the will of God. That one and only body became the sacrifice and the perfect body, the spiritual body, the holy body of which you and I are partakers to eat that body as bread and to drink that blood or we don't have any life in us. And without that body we are not that body for as scientists say, what we eat that's what we are. And He said, Taste of the Lord and see if He is good. So then, to eat His body is to become His flesh. And today we're bone of His bone and we are flesh of His flesh and the only thing that's going to be spared after that millennium is His bone and His flesh, His body. For the Bible said that Jesus Christ alone dwells in that light, that great mighty light. He alone dwells in that light having immortality. And the Bible said it's the light, God Himself, unto which no man can approach or no man has ever approached unto, that no man can approach unto having not seen, or ever can see, the Bible said. Let's remember that. Not only have they never seen Him but the Bible said they never will see Him. God is a spirit and they that worship God must worship Him in spirit and in truth. And Jesus Christ is the personification of God and this is the great error of the world today. They are trying their best to make God into something and Jesus into something and the Holy Ghost into something when they are only one. The Bible said, And these three are one and Jesus Christ is the head of the church. He is the fullness of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ as to the church. He is the fullness of the God body. There is no other body. There is no other human body accept the Lord Jesus Christ and God is a spirit. That's why He made in Himself twain. And so then, He fulfilled every jot and every tittle of the law. Every jot and every tittle. Do you know why Satan wants to divide Him up? Because if He can divide Him up He can put about a half a dozen names. You know, you can say, well, He's Jehovah. And He can be called all the redemptive names that He worked through. He is Jehovah or He is a father, or He is a son. He is the Holy Ghost. He can be called all kind of names. He does that to offset remission of sin so that He can keep these bodies because the name of Jesus casts the devil out because Jesus was the Word. And the Word__ The Bible said God sent His Word and cast out the devils. He sent His Word and healed the people. It was by His Word that He spoke the world into existence. It's still the same mighty Word to us today. The Bible says the Jews had the Word but it didn't profit them because they didn't have any faith in it. They wanted to destroy Jesus. So then, this Word today is to us and we've got to stay with the name for the remission of sin. We've got to be baptized into Christ and put on Christ that it might be Christ. If I'm crucified with Christ at Calvary I must be buried with Christ in a watery grave in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. When you kill a person or a person dies you put him in the ground. If you don't you've got a stink. That's where the stink is coming from. The devil is trying his best to get around the name Jesus and you'll find that the people that avoid the name Jesus and try to go another way around the name Jesus they not only will avoid the name Jesus but there are devils everywhere and they are practicing every thing that they can in the flesh and they're doing every thing according to their desire and they're projecting themselves and they're looking for the little kingdoms of the world because they've never been born again. Somebody can say hallelujah. All right. So through the name of Jesus. They try to get up another way and He said if you come another way then you are a thief and a robber. And you can during the time that this grace is poured out. It's only dispensational grace. And during the church ages just enough to be above you and around you so that you will have an opportunity to hear the truth. But this dispensational grace cannot save you. It is only an opportunity for you to come to God. That is to say it's the same grace but there is one spirit many operations. It is a different operation. But the Bible said the grace of God that brings salvation, that's another operation. It has appeared unto all men teaching them that they should deny worldly lust and live soberly and righteously in this present world. And they should be Holy and Godly in their body instead of just running after the world and trying to get a hold of the world and mix the world with God. Somebody says, Let's all get together. That's of the devil. Somebody says, You can't preach like that. I said that's of the devil. Come on, folks, that's of the devil. Just like I told you not too long ago when I read a little article in the paper and this big writing here says, as to the heading of it or whatever it was, it said, All faiths coming together. And then I stood and I thought and I said, All faiths coming together. I said to myself, How can all faiths come together? There is but one faith. What are they talking about? And then they had the Islamic. They had the Christians. They had the Buddhist. They had them all. They were going to come together. Faiths coming together to worship God. Folks, how can they come together? Two can't walk together lest they be agreed. I'm not in agreement with Buddhist teachings. I'm not in agreement with Islamic teachings. The Bible said they were first called Christians at Antioch because they were Christ like. And to be Christ like you have to have Christ's spirit; that's what Christianity is. See? I said, No, that can't be. There is no such thing as all faiths. There is but one faith and that's faith in the Word of the living God. And if you don't believe the Word of God you don't have that faith. And you are saved by faith and that faith is the faith of Jesus Christ by which you are sanctified. Now, I ain't going to take much longer; just hold on. I'm just having a hard time to getting around to make my point. All right. So then, we say, Well, what are you talking about, Brother Pike? Jesus fulfilled the law, folks? The Bible teaches that if somebody starts trying to put you under the law they are a heretic. After the first and second admonition, or admonish them twice and in the mouth of two witnesses reject them. They are heretics. Don't pay any attention to them. This is Christianity and the priesthood today is the ministry. And the law today is righteousness of Jesus Christ, the faith of Jesus Christ. So, this administration today is through faith of Jesus Christ. He fulfilled every jot and every tittle of the law. And today the law is gone. The law. Somebody said, But, Brother Pike, the law can't be gone. Remember now. Every jot and tittle has got to be fulfilled and no one can do away with that law until every jot and tittle is fulfilled. Folks, why did the Lord Jesus come? There would have been no need for Him to come. We already had the law. Paul and Peter had a dispute over this. When Paul said, Peter, what are you doing? And he said to the Galatians, Who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ was evidently set forth and crucified. This I would learn of you. He said, Having started in the spirit or you then made now made perfect by the law, or by flesh? Where did the great things that God did, where did they come from? Did they come from the law or by the hearing of faith? He said, I afraid of you, observing signs and seasons and all these kind of things. And said, I'm not going to frustrate the grace of God, he said, because if we had righteousness by the law Jesus Christ died in vain. And Peter had been down there preaching and was receiving the Gentiles, going along with them and then people come up from James's house and all of a sudden he got afraid and he run back to the Jews. And he said, How is it, Peter that you've lived like a Gentile and you've fellowshipped the Gentiles and then when the Jews come up here you run over to the Jews? And he really reproved Peter over it. Now, I said all of that to say this. He fulfilled every jot and every tittle of the law. And when he did he folded it up and laid it away for his purpose was to take us out from under sin. Now. Folks, this is the place I want you to really listen to now from here on out. I hope you listen to all of it. It goes on tape anyway. But I want you to listen to this part because it's of the greatest importance that we grow in the knowledge of Christ Jesus. Because the church world isn't growing in the knowledge of Jesus. I've traveled around the world in every country and I can't find them growing in the knowledge of Jesus. And the biggest reason is because the preachers aren't teaching them. They're so after money and so after fame and popularity and ruling and lording over the heritage and having a Nicolaitane control until they are not interested in their soul nor their learning. And somebody said, But, you just don't know our church. Yeah, I know your church. I've been around the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic, just about all of them. I've preached to those people or in their churches. Not too long ago over in Egypt we preached in two Catholic places over there. One was the Catholic theater and one was one of the biggest Catholic Cathedrals I have ever seen. And with it's annex building, one of the most fabulous I've ever known. Preached in both of them and God gave us a great meeting. See? But the thing is they are not teaching the people the Word of God. Somebody says, Can you prove it? My hands be raised to heaven, they're not teaching people. They are telling them the Bible stories. They are giving them what we call the elementary side of the understanding of God but the Bible said the Spirit of God searcheth out the things of God; yea the deep things. And when you go to communicate with them they sound like a group of children. They are not making any advancement. You ask them to pull a hundred million dollars and that's their goal. They want to be on television, pull a hundred million. They want to be famous. They want to hold some kind of office in this world or be some kind of celebrity when the Bible emphatically states that we shouldn't do that because that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. The old king of Babylon down there said, Daniel, just tell me about these things and he came unjointed and his knees was knocking and his wise men couldn't tell him anything. Said, Get Daniel, get Daniel. And Daniel told him. Oh, he said, I'll make you third ruler in the kingdom. And he said, King, thy gift be to somebody else; I'll tell you what the Lord told me. Now. And they wanted to put a gold chain around his neck. What am I saying? I say that Jesus Christ came for a purpose. What was the purpose? That purpose was to abolish death. How could He abolish death? There is only one way you can abolish death. Somebody said, Well, what's all this preaching about? The Bible said, What is this that our Father Abraham has found? You know, what is it all about? I've heard this and we've talked about this and we went through this. No, you haven't. No you haven't. I can tell by your conduct. When I meet people around the world I can tell by their conduct. I can tell by their speech. Their speech will betray them to the extent I can tell that they've never even been in the neighborhood of it. But, folks, it's for the Christian. And we're in the last hour. It is the hour of the translation. I've got people sitting here in this church right now that's positive that they know what I'm talking about and they still don't know it after twenty-five long years. Now. And the other night I was going to try to bring out a few little things and we run into something when I started reproving a little bit. If I ever lift my voice to reprove we run into something. Now. So, what is this? We are to learn something. What is it that I must learn, Brother Pike? I must learn this thing that God has spoken of that is so great. But if I say so great somebody says, Why do you say that, Brother Pike? Because it is so great. It's so awesome. It is unbelievable. There has never been the like, never. All of your scientists put together; put all of them together, all of your learning for six thousand years; it wouldn't even register the size of a pea in the presence of just a little bit of the understanding of God. Put it all together; Einstein on top of it. So, what are we saying? I'm saying that the Bible said they are ever learning, with their diplomacies and whatever, and all they ever hatch out is Sodomites and freaks. That's all that ever comes out of them. Somebody says, Oh, no, Brother Pike, I know some great statesmen that came out of it. There never has lived a great statesman, a great statesman, there has never been one in the history of the world that ever came out of college. Somebody say amen. You say, What do you mean, Brother Pike? I brought it out the other night how that the colleges, our greatest colleges in America, the greatest colleges we've got in America, the most leading name that when they started they started under a religious thing and they were bringing preachers, one right after another, out of their institutions and God was having revivals in their institutions and great mighty things were happening until the ecclesiastical devils of the ecclesia got control of their intellectual brilliance and rooted and pushed out everything until they took over and they've got this dogma in there and they've killed everything and drove God out. Not only that, folks, but let me tell you; the church world has done the very same thing. The Bible said instead of a church it has become a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Which means nothing but devils after money, and pride and prestige, and passions and all of these kind of things. They corrupt. All flesh has corrupted it's way before God. Now. When we come to these things, that's where the problem is. He said, But, I'm going to bring Zion again. When I bring Zion again, He said, they're going to see eye to eye. It's going to be with this Word, right here, and they're going to speak the same thing. And, folks, He's going to have a bride. He's going to have a real bride. Somebody says, Well, what is that bride going to consist of, Brother Pike? It's going to be a Word bride. She's going to be the Word. She's going to be the flesh and bone of Jesus Christ. She's going to be obsessed with the Word. She's going to think the Word. She's going to talk the Word. She's going to live in the Word. Somebody says, How much of this, Brother Pike? Until every thought is brought into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ. That's going to be His bride. Could anything outside of the Word be His bone and flesh? Isn't your wife your bone and flesh. Isn't this the mystery that Paul spoke of that no longer twain but one? So then, this is the thing we're speaking of. Trying to climb up another way. When the Lord Jesus came what did He do? He fulfilled every jot and tittle and He folded it up the law and He laid it away. Somebody would say, Do you really expect us to believe that, Brother Pike? And of course these tapes go out to the world. I expect you to believe that but it doesn't matter if you don't because you are a sovereignty. You can believe whatever you want to, but you are saved by the Word and this is the Word. He that God sendeth will speak God's Word and if you don't believe, Jesus said, that I am He then you die in your sins. So, when it comes to these kind of things what are we saying? Paul said, We, therefore, and he was our overseer. He was the one with the vision for the Gentile Church. Peter said, God making a difference between us, chose me to open the door to the Gentile Church down at Cornelius's. Now, and Paul he was the overseer. Ye are a chosen vessel, Paul. I will show you the many things that you are going to suffer for my namesake, or the great things. So, he said, it's not me living but Christ living within me. Whipping post five times, with rods beaten three times. Ship wrecked, stoned, left for dead; all these kind of things. Now, Paul our great overseer, the man with the revelation, the one that was caught up into the third heaven, showing the translation of the church. He said, We therefore conclude that a man is justified by grace of God without the deeds of the law. Now, isn't that plain? Isn't that real plain? Said, You don't need the deeds of the law. Wouldn't you like to tell the Jews that and see if they could believe that? No, they couldn't believe that unless you are the one that's come out of Zion to turn ungodliness away from Jacob. And you'll have to prove that. They're the greatest Bible scholars in the world. You'll have to go back and prove that. Like I said to a Rabbi not too long ago in Israel when we had a little confrontation and he really got fired up. He got hot at me. He was ready to really cause me some problems and they had gone over there already trying to stone some of them at another church right there in the city of Jerusalem. And he got fired up at me. I said, What it is you just don't know your own Bible. Let's give the Lord a hand. He started talking about the Torah. I said, This is taught in the Torah when I'd spoken of the remission of sin by blood. I said, And the prophet like unto Moses, when I asked a Jew, I said, Tell me who He was. I said, Jesus; that's who He was. They couldn't answer me. I said, Jesus, that's who He was. So it shall come to pass that whosoever faileth to hear that prophet shall be cut off from among the people. Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, I understand that but I don't understand you. What have you got to do with it? I'm sent to remit your sins; that's what I have to do with it. Somebody said, Judgment beginning at the house of God. That's right. Somebody said, But I thought He was Jesus. The Bible said not to know any man after the flesh but you'd know him after the spirit and we're bone of His bone and we're flesh of His flesh. And Paul said it's not us living but Christ. And we've been baptized into His death. And the Bible said they that are dead to sin they can live no longer therein. And if they be dead to sin then they cannot sin anymore for he that is dead to sin is altogether free from sin. Now somebody said, Well, hurry and get through. I'm not quite through but I'll soon be middle ways if you'll hold on. Now. Satan sure would like for me to hurry all right. He always wants me to hurry. But the thing is when he gets around a steak and he gets around a milk shake and he gets around all the enjoyments of the things of the world he doesn't want to hurry. When he gets home to the television, when he wallows around in the bed, when he does anything pertaining to the flesh he's got plenty of time. When he rides, talks, laughs and the flesh is at leisure he's as happy as he can be. All right. So, we go on a little farther here. (Begin tape two, side one.) ....Now I don't have much farther here to talk with you. All right. Now. So then, what did he do? He did what He told them. He said, Pray the Kingdom come. That is, the law and the prophets were until John and now all of a sudden now here the Kingdom is. He was telling them He was fixing to reveal the Kingdom. And since John the Kingdom has been preached. For say not that He is in Heaven. One must bring Him down, or in the earth to bring Him up; He is nigh you, even in your heart. That if thou shall believe in thine heart unto righteousness through the atonement of Jesus Christ, by faith of Jesus Christ, and call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to confess in your heart this righteousness of God then thou shalt be saved. So then, here we look at it and we realize that what He is saying is that the law is no more. It is no more. It is fulfilled. Somebody said, Where is the law, Brother Pike? It is fulfilled. It is fulfilled. The Bible said, And in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son made of a woman and made under the law. Children of God, especially, listen. If God had not fulfilled the law through a human body at Calvary today you wouldn't have your dentist that could give you a shot. You wouldn't have your medical world that could give you a pill. You wouldn't have any healing medicine. You wouldn't have any way to get out of your pain and misery at all. And it's fast coming to the place to where you're not going to have it anyway because the grace of God is beginning to lift, because you're coming fast to the knowledge of right and wrong and the Bible said where there is a knowledge of sin, sin isn't imputed. And you're going to have your sins imputed unto you. Where there is an imputing of sin there is no more atonement for sin. The atonement of Calvary will not cover your sins when you come to the knowledge of the truth and don't go on for the Bible said after you come to the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin but only the fearful looking forward to of the fiery indignation of God that shall devour His adversaries for it is impossible to renew them again to repentance seeing that they crucify Christ afresh and put Him to an open shame. Let us go on to perfection. Or, that is, make this perfection within us which is wrought by the works of Christ, the faith of Christ, make it manifest into these mortal genes to change these mortal genes into immortality. So, this is where we are at today. What are we saying? That the law has been folded up and laid away and Paul had the dispute with the Jews. I remind you of this thing one more time. And that is, he confronted the Jews and he said, Tell me that if they which are not Jews do by nature, as to the inward man, those things contained in the law, aren't they a law unto themselves? And the means of this is by their thoughts, either accusing or excusing one another. That is to what he said when he said, these things for which I allow not. I wish we had time to explain that. But, anyway, he said, And you that have the law, none of you keep the law, he said, now which is justified before God. He said, It's you that are true Jews. These that real spiritual Jews, that you are only an allegoric thing with your types and shadows and symbols and these kind of things. That's all that you are, pointing to the real Christ. And the real babe that shall rule the world. So, when we come to this we realize then what God has done for us. How awesome. How unbelievable. How unreal, as it would be to our natural minds. Somebody said, What are you talking about, Brother Pike? What is this thing so awesome? I don't get it. But see? You heard it, didn't you? Now if you really hear it why don't you understand? The Bible said, with knowledge get understanding. And the wicked shall not understand but the righteous shall understand. Let's just go down the line just for a little bit. What am I saying? I am saying that Jesus came and abolished death. Now that's what the physicians would like to do. Satan has tried so hard through the physician to do that and they do good, even help life a little bit. And you know, you have never really come to life. The scientific world, as I said this morning, has never even come to life. Out of six thousand years of probing and studying, ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth, which is the knowledge of God, they have never even come to life. They have never even discovered life yet. For the Bible said God has hid this from the eyes of the wise and of the prudent and He has made it revelation unto babes such as would learn. And that's why Paul said, I would like to speak unto you as unto spirituals. He said, Seek the spirit of revelation for the Spirit of God wants to search out the deep things and that these things will never come to you as a man. They only come to God. So, though they try and they'll climb up to the stars and make their nest among the stars, but from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. So, when we look at this we know that they don't understand. But, Brothers and Sisters, real true, precious Brothers and Sisters, you have discovered it. It's been made a revelation to babes such as are willing to learn through the divine mind of the Lord Jesus Christ on the inside of you who hath wrought this thing by His Own works and by His Own blood. And they said, What must we do to work the works of the Lord Jesus? Or of God? He said, I am the works. The works was finished from the foundation of the world. I've predestinated you of the fore-ordination of God in the Word, to be the predestinated and the fore-ordained of God unto eternal life. As many as were fore-ordained unto eternal life when Paul preached to them they believed. The rest did not believe because they were not fore-ordained unto eternal life. Though they shout, they do all the things you do and you couldn't even tell the difference, unless you be elect; they look so much alike. The rain is on the tare as well as the wheat. Okay. Hold on. It's getting a little bit longer now. We've probably done past forty-five minutes here but hold on. I'm still got a few things here to clear. See? The reason that I do this, if I pick it up in the audience of no interest, which I'm not doing that it's just always one or two that are aggravating because they're carnal minded and Satan sends them there to spy out our liberty. When they think they've summed it up in their brilliance they are ready to quit and they are always right there in their state of ignorance when they don't have it and they think they do and God cuts them off. But this has to go out to the world in books. It goes out in tapes, films, and whatever so I have to clear it because they don't have me to come to as a minister. And unless their minister is acquainted with it then he doesn't have the answer to it unless God gives it to him. Somebody says, Well, God can give it to him. That's fine. I wish He'd give it to a hundred million people. Somebody said, Don't you know those are people down there are prophesying, Moses? Said, I wish all of them were prophets. He wasn't upset about it; that's the idea is to get the mind into you. Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus. But, nevertheless, there has to be somebody to blaze the trail, whether it's at Little Bethlehem or whether it's over it Rwanda, wherever it might be. And when it comes to God's people, and especially God's men. The Bible said even His people it is a little flock and few there be that find it. It's not the great massive multitude that you see gathering at religious meetings. And if it is such a small people, as it was with Israel__ I've not chosen you because you are a good people, nor have I chosen you because you are great in number. You are the fewest in all the earth and you are a rebellious people but I'm chosen you to make a name for Myself. And, folks, the very thing that you try to get around is His name when that is what He was choosing them for. And that's why they were chosen. That's why you are chosen. If it be so few, as to the people, how much fewer are those that are men of God that are really sent. And that's why people don't turn from their sins, the men that are talking to them wasn't sent and they haven't told them the truth. They haven't brought a restriction. They haven't told them that they have to be holy in body, soul and spirit. Paul said, I seek to present you to God blameless, body, soul and spirit. You know, we want the children to stay six or eight hours a day in school, as I've said so many times and we can't hardly stay two hours just once a week. But then, I'm going to try to get back in to the mind of Christ just for a few minutes to try to finish this because Satan don't want me to finish these little thoughts here. This should be on tape because others wonder; they write. They heard me preach way down in Guiana, Georgetown, Guiana, over the radio not too long ago, in that we go into the Islands and different places and they wrote us and said, Please give me the sermon, make me to understand. What is this you are talking about, Brother Pike, the dispute over the body? Said they were so thrilled with it. But we couldn't get but just a little bit on there. And a lot of times it's because of you people. Now, your interest is not in heavenly things, though it's suppose to be. Somebody said, Well, what do you mean by that? I mean like tonight. See? Let me call a meeting and say, Folks, we made a decision tonight. Do you believe I'm the pastor? Then they said, Well, of course. I say, Well, my decision is that everyone, not one single one should leave tonight. All should pray all night long. Now, how would that sound? Oh, somebody said, but I've got a business. What difference does that make to God? What if God sends the death angel for you? Don't you think your business partner will understand? He'll understand because one day God's going to send the death angel for him, too. All of you are on death row. It doesn't matter what age you are, you're on death row and you're going. Except you repent of your sins, receive the Lord Jesus Christ and be born again you're going to death. You are appointed unto death. So then, He hath abolished death. That's what's the excitement. The medical world can't find it. What did He do for you, folks? He abolished death. What does that mean? That means death is over. It is over. It is gone. Oh, somebody says, Well, I don't know about that now, Brother Pike. I think you're a little bit eccentric and I think you're beside yourself. Paul said, Well, if I am beside myself it is because of Christ. It is for Christ. If I am a fool, he said, I'm a fool for God. I believe what the Word said is what created the world. And this Word, it says He came to destroy the works of the devil, for this cause was He manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil. There wasn't but one way that He could destroy the works of the devil and that was to fulfill every jot and every tittle of the law because transgression of the law is sin and He had to get rid of sin because sin is the work of the devil. It's what brings sickness. It's what brings poverty. It's what's bringing wars. It's what's bringing heartaches. He had to fulfill every jot and tittle of the law to take us out from under sin. The twenty-eighty chapter of deuteronomy strictly tells us that if we don't continue in the law to do every jot and tittle of it then we're under the curse. For he that strives to keep the law, if he keeps just every bit of it and offends in one point he's guilty of all. So, He hath taken us out from under the law and before the world ever was He gave us this by predestination. The Lamb was slain in His foreknowledge and we were predestinated in the Word. Not just predestinated, you know, for somebody to say, Well, you know, we're predestinated; we do what we want to. It said He predestinated us in the Word and to make your calling and election sure, that He has elected you unto grace by foreknowledge. Check up and see if you have the fruits of the Spirit in your life. And if you don't have the fruits of the Spirit you couldn't have the Spirit. So, if you don't have the Christ Spirit you couldn't live a Christian life. It takes Christ's Spirit to live a Christ life. And if you have the Christ Spirit then you'll bring forth in your body the Christian Spirit, as to the fruits. So, you're predestinated in the Word unto eternal life. The others are ordained unto condemnation. So then, He hath abolished death. Now, this is what He hath done. He hath abolished death and brought to light (and the word light means understanding), brought to light, given to us before the world ever was by foreknowledge, elect according to foreknowledge, Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. The children having yet done no good or evil that it might stand according to Him that calleth and not of him that willeth or runneth, but of the Lord's desire, He said, Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. Now, being elect according to foreknowledge, Paul said, there is nothing that can separate you from the love of God. No one can lay anything to your charge for you are justified, sanctified, perfected, made perfect forever. Once and for all you are sanctified by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus at Calvary. And we have some tapes here, I know, that there is a daily sanctification. I realize that but it has nothing to do with your salvation. But we are sanctified by the offering up of the Lord Jesus. Paul, turn my people from their intellectual darkness of the old tree of knowledge and their wilderness wondering of will worship and turn them in light unto THE faith, which is in Jesus Christ by which they are sanctified. The law and the prophets until John, since that time THE faith is here and we're no longer under the tutors of the law. Now. This just calls for about ten more hours of just telling a little bit of it. So, great is the mystery of godliness. But just trying to find a place here to close with just a few words we find that we have been baptized into His death; we are now free. We are alive as a new creature and alive in a new world and old things have passed away and behold all things have become new. And we yield our bodies and members now unto God as those that are alive from the dead, refusing to even condemn ourselves for happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he allows in that he allow not for that, Paul said, as to those things that trip you up. See? Now, happy are you because you don't injure your faith and that's you shield. And Satan wants to injure your faith so he can get at you. But since the Lord has done the works then your faith should stay right solid, from mountain top to mountain top. And you should never condemn yourself over those things when you stumble when you know that you are not guilty and you know you're doing your very best and the devil has done that you put it beside you, you go on praising God, repenting over it saying, My God! I wouldn't hurt you for nothing. Lord, please deliver me, strengthen me. Help me. That, as Peter__ Peter, I've prayed for you that your faith fail not. When thou art converted strengthen thy brethren, Peter. So, though he had cursed and denied that he even knew the Lord, after having gotten the keys. So, when it comes to this we know that we are justified by faith. Blessed. Remember these words. Blessed. David said blessed is the man unto whom God will not impute sin. And I ask this question so often, Is there such a living creature in the world that God actually will not impute sin unto? The Bible said where there is no knowledge of sin, sin is not imputed. But to them that have a knowledge of sin, sin is imputed but it is offset if you have a knowledge of righteousness as to knowing about sin. If you turn to God then He hath crucified the body of sin. And the Bible said now He has destroyed the body of sin by the body of the Lord Jesus in forsaking the Lord Jesus and making you what He wanted you to be, as from the cradle up of entering into glory and between the cherubs, which was Moses and Elijah back into the garden, or back into the world of God. See? And then He stepped down from there and became your sacrifice as to what you should not have been as to the sinful fall, not blaming you with it and He died as the presence of God withdrew and left Him there to mourn on the tree saying, My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken me? And that was to forsake Him that He might not have to forsake you and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. He has exchanged places and made you the righteousness of Christ while He made Jesus your sins. And when He was delivered for your offenses and God smote Him for your offenses because you had offended against God and then He raised Him up which meant He raised you up for your justification. The Lord was raised up that though He is dead unto sin He liveth now forever unto God. And as He is so are we in Him for we are alive forever more. He went into the grave for you in the body. He went into hell for you in His soul. For the Bible said God suffered not His holy one to see corruption (that's the body) and He suffered not His soul to remain in hell. Which was for you in conquering the flames for the soul that sinneth shall go into hell. For the Bible said the fire is the second death. So the soul that sinneth shall surely die. And then His Spirit went into paradise to minister to the souls in prison that cried in the fifth seal of the sixth chapter of the book of Revelation saying, How long, O God? Those souls under the altar. How long? when He gave them the robe and said, Put this on. I have now crossed the Jordan, He could have said. We're now over the Jordan. I've now purged my body. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, be baptized into His lovely name, baptized into His death. They had already died. But, folks, when we're baptized that means death is over. That's finished. When we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ that means that's it. And do you know what? I saw something appear before me then as I said that and it brought something back to my mind. I know it was God doing that because it's like the vision a few days ago of this ball of fire that came in through the front door and then there was a man sitting on this throne that was in the midst of the ball of fire that came down here and the people, they were__ They were so awesome. It was so awesome to them. And it passed through here and passed through me and passed through a door back here when there wasn't any door, we say, at the time of the vision. But now there is a door. And it passed through the door back there and went outside and went out to the place called Bethel. We name that little bank out here Bethel and when we dug that well out there, so deep it is because it went down into the rock. And it's like the crossing of the Jordan and it went out there and raised about eighteen feet higher than the little bank. And then all of a sudden the resurrection came. And it reminded me then when He showed me something all of a sudden. And when He did it suddenly came back to me about that thing that happened and about the vision. And then what I saw this morning. I don't know, maybe two or three o'clock, over in the morning. I was trying to pray and I was kind of miserable like but when I saw this all of a sudden, it had a lot involved in it and I won't try to go into it. But the thing I just wanted to mention just briefly was that I began to praise God. I began to lift my hands and praise God. As I began to praise God, I just turned a loose praising God and I saw the people do the same thing that was around me. There was a few people in there, in this room and they began to do the same thing. And I said, It's the resurrection. It's the resurrection. It's the resurrection. And I said, I know it's the resurrection. I'm going to look in here where these caskets are and I'm going to see and I expected to see them people gone. I open the door and there was a whole bunch of caskets and they had had people in them and all of them had gone out of them caskets just like that. And I screamed out it's the resurrection. Folks, that's what it is. Jesus said, I am the resurrection. And where two or three are gathered together in My name the resurrection is in the midst of them. Somebody say hallelujah! The only thing is, have you seen Him. Jesus said you have never seen Him at any time nor heard His voice for they that hear My voice will come out of the graves. So in this, what are we then saying? We're saying that He has abolished death. He done away with death. How did He do it? By taking the law away. Since transgression of the law is sin and the sting of death is sin, then if you transgress the law then you sin and sin is the sting that kills the soul and that brings death. So, the sting of death is sin and where there is no sin there is no sting to death. And where there is no law there is no sin. For Paul said where there is no law there is no transgression. Where there is no transgression there is no sin because sin is the transgression of the law and where there is no law then that means that you are dead to it by the body of the Lord Jesus and the people that are in the grave cannot transgress the law so God. Therefore your body, you reckon your bodies to be dead unto sin by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, being baptized into the death of the Lord, therefore you are free from sin. So the law is fulfilled in you, as to the righteousness of God, and now you are free from sin. The law is folded up. It's laid away and you are under grace. And because you are under grace__ Somebody says, Well, don't that mean, Brother Pike, that we have the right to go to heaven. No, it don't mean that. So then, you are not under the law, you are under grace. Well, what does it mean? It means that you are already in heaven. Let's give the Lord a hand. The Bible said concerning Peter, you are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. And since that time grace has come. And just as the devil was seen in heaven in the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation when the war was in heaven and he was cast out, that man child that's been in heaven, dwelling in heaven, the Bible says He sets in heavenly places. He dwells in heaven. He's born and caught up to the throne immediately, as the throne of God on the inside, of the kingdom of God on the inside and the kingdom of heaven on the inside, and that He's taken this Word to rule with a rod of iron and that He is kicking the devil out. He's putting the old tree of knowledge out. He's bringing down the world of diplomacy and all of the corruption of the flesh and He's overthrowing the flesh and doing away with the flesh and He's indicting the whole world, as to the flesh and that body of death. He's doing it. And that is a war in heaven which is in the spiritual realm showing the star war of our day and that intellectual mind is going to have to give up the kingdom. It's held it long enough and it's turned everybody in to Sodomites, practically. And now God is tired of the mess. And the day that Lot went out of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible said, then came the fire because it had to do with the church. And we said they would turn to Sodomites and the would license it and then God would take the church out. And sure enough He's been taking them out ever since. He's been translating them into the marvelous kingdom of God and now it's being revealed to the child who He is and where He is and He's going to rule with a rod of iron because He's going to get that feeling that this intellectual thing from the houses of prostitution to where they are streaking around and seeking honor of one another ain't nothing but a wallow hole for swine where they wallow in their mire and lap their own vomit and practice fornication and filth and get taught how to con people and to get the upper hand of people. You can say amen or oh me. I allow for both of them here. Somebody said, Well, I can't get a hold of that. Well, somebody say hallelujah if you can. Sure you can. Because the devil has got to give it up. He's got to give it up. That's where all these wars come from. That's where all the trouble comes from. That's where all the slaughter comes from. The Bible said, Whence forth cometh wars? Is it not from the lust that warreth in your members? That intellectual dogma of people sitting around for money and power while they take the little man and use them like playing chess on a chess board. Because they're intellectually brilliant and they take control of them and they just crush them and rob them with the IRS and everything else. You can say amen. All right. Mr. Washington and Mr. Lincoln took us away from that but the old devil has come right along and trailed them right down to the end and now since they are coming in again they're angry because God is up-rooting them, putting them out of their kingdom because this child is going to have an understanding that those kind of people with their philosophy and Einstein will look like a little baby in the diaper with the pins. Somebody say hallelujah. Somebody said, Brother Pike, you don't believe that! I believe that with all my soul. That's what the Bible teaches. The Bible said you have an unction from the Holy One that you should know all things. And there's a lot of things they don't know but you know the natural, the physical and the spiritual. Not only that, but when you are gone out of here, and God is sealing you in right now, then the doctors won't have any healing medicine. They have turned the hospitals in to a pig and the doctors and the nurses are in such a filthy mess. Somebody said, You're guessing. Oh, no. And the dentist and his lady workers are in a filthy mess. I made that statement not too long ago. I said, They'll catch them and they did. They caught the doctors and they caught the dentist. They put up some films and caught both of them. See? And I said they're practicing filth and because they will not give God the glory and popping the pills and whatever they do and they try to subject you to the filth, to get you to wallow in the mire with them, them they can't get any healing medicine anymore. I said it will come to that and so they published the piece in the paper. Said, We cannot find healing medicines anymore. Somebody say hallelujah. All right. So people are dying. People are in pain, whatever it might be. Grandma with her little herb and praying to God was able to do something but those folks ain't able to nothing anymore. All right. Let's stand together. So God has sent Jesus to abolish death. He hath done away with death. He hath destroyed not only the works of Lucifer but He hath destroyed Lucifer for the Bible said He will destroy them that hath power over death and Satan cannot get to you, no matter how you feel, no matter how much he harasses this body that has not gone through the change yet. Job said I'll wait for my change. He can't do anything to you. You are unspotted. You are born of God; you cannot sin. The seed of God remaineth in you. You cannot sin because you are born of God. If you could sin then you could die but because you can't sin you can't die. And because you can't sin that means you live forever. You have eternal life and that means that death is abolished and death is gone because when He done away with the law that done away with the sting of death. And when He done away with the sting of death that meant that you passed over the Jordan. Don't lean to the Jordan of your own understanding. Just thank God and praise God and, folks, realize who you are, that you are already sons of God. You've already crossed the Jordan. He's already paid the price. He's already freed you and He's just wanting you to say hallelujah. This is the resurrection. This is the resurrection. Glory to God. He took me out of that old bodily grave. He lifted me up and it's not from the dust to the dust anymore. He said I came from heaven; I go back to heaven. And He said you're not of this world so that means we must have come from somewhere else and we go back for the Sons of God leaped for joy in the foreknowledge of God before the world ever was. Can you give Him a wave offering and say hallelujah? Hallelujah! God is good. Isn't God good. So then, that resurrection and life is here. He brought life and immortality to light. Not only do you have eternal life by new birth but we're learning by witting the redemption of our body that it's already the purchased possession. That it's just as safe as the spirit is and it's spotless. God hath made it spotless as that beautiful garment of Christ. Come on, folks. And because of that that means that you are His body, soul and spirit; blameless.

God has wrought this work in Christ Jesus and we are His workmanship in Christ; heirs and joint heirs with our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. So, the Bible said they blasphemed the tabernacle of God and the tabernacle of God was among men. Ye are even beyond that. Ye are temples of the living God. The tabernacle is on the verge of the change to the temple. Let me say before we close. With this it means you are not waiting to go to heaven. Somebody says, Why do you stress that point, Brother Pike? Somebody said, Don't you know I've got enough sense to know I'm still in the world? Perhaps you do. Perhaps you do. But if you do know that you are still in the world I'm offering you the opportunity to get out of it because God is fixing to burn it. God's fixing to burn it. When Lot went out He burned it. Folks, you're His. You are His peculiar treasure. You are His, without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. He's perfected you forever. Them that be perfect shall be as their master, overcoming to set down in the throne with Him. Heaven is the throne, earth is the footstool. So then, knowing that we are talking about being in heaven, why do we do it because it takes faith to bring a healing. And though you look and you see the problem you say, It's a lying vanity. The Bible said this world and all that's in this world is vanity of vanities and vexation of the spirit and all is vanity. And the world and all that is in it is vanity, including the people that are in it. But you are not in the world; I've chosen you out of the world. I've hidden you with Christ in God whom the heavens have received and all of it will pass away. And if you observe the lying vanities of the world, even through the intellectual then you have forsaken the Word. You have forsaken the mercies of God for they that observed lying vanities and confessed that to be truth and called that reality then they are denying the Word of God because the Word of God is exactly contrary to that. The carnal mind is contrary to God. It will not believe in the supernatural things of God, nor in the revelation of the Son of God. So, to them the world of God can never be revealed to them because it is a spiritual thing. Even the Jews, as religious as they were, they couldn't get a hold of this. See? And you're their Savior. You've got to have the Word of God. So then for me to believe on the inside that the work is done, and for me to believe in the atonement of the Lord Jesus and accept the blood of Christ it makes it manifest in my mortal genes. And it makes my body to be eternal. It brings it to be eternal. And this is what you've got to do. This is what you've got to do. You've got to realize that God doesn't partially do anything. You are now bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Someone would say, But, Brother Pike, I still bleed; how can I be bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh? Did He bleed? When they beat His back did He bleed? When they put the nails in His hands did He bleed? When they run the spear in His side did He bleed? Did He eat and did He drink just like you? Did he? Do you deny that He was God? For the Bible said, And God was among them. That's right. Said they handled Him but they never did know about it. Now, do you believe He was God? Somebody said, But God is a spirit, Brother Pike. I know God is a spirit. He said My word is spirit and it is life. Isn't that what He said? He said, Feel of me, a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have; speaking of the body when they said it is a spirit. And He said to the woman at the well, God is a spirit; you must worship Him is spirit and in truth. But at the same time the Bible said, And the spirit was made flesh. Somebody said, Why, I don't remember reading that. He said the Word was made flesh and He said the Word was what? Spirit and life and it was God. So the second man Adam was made a quickening spirit. Isn't that right? Why? Because there is a natural body and a spiritual body and the first body fell from the Shekinah and went to the dust. But you that believe in coming to the wonderful mind of God you can come into it and you don't have to go back to the dust. Behold I show you a mystery. Even as far back as Paul was he preached, he said, I was caught up into the third heaven. Or I know of a man, he said, to keep from giving the flesh the glory. He said, One thing I don't know, whether it was in the body or out of the body I can't tell. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together. I don't want you to get afraid so just hold on, we're going to let you out. (Singing.) The Bible said God's eyes are throughout the earth beholding the good and the evil, going to and fro in the earth looking for the upright in heart to show Himself strong in their behalf. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness thus purifying our hearts by faith. Then God's great spirit can come in under the law. And now we're not under the law anymore. If I am not under the law anymore what should I have? I should have perfect faith. What is the ministry for? Paul said we are set there for the perfecting of your faith. To make your faith perfect. Somebody said, Well, I just can't believe that. I'm talking to the children of God. We are sitting there, children of God, or come here, sitting here, that is, when we come or standing here. Whether we're up here talking, or whatever we're doing, we are mediating and talking to God because we are going to tell you the Word of God and faith cometh by the hearing of the Word of God and it perfects your faith. You cannot have perfect faith unless you have a perfect understanding of a perfect Word. The Bible said the Word of God is perfect converting the soul. So then, we come up here. When I come up here I just set down and I start talking to God and I start thinking on God before I ever stand up here. And I come up here to perfect your faith and some of you are not getting perfected. He's coming back after a perfect church but you are not getting perfected. Somebody would say, But, Brother Pike, God perfected me. God did perfect them that He foreknew. He gave this wonderful perfection through the blood on the seat of atonement for all of the world until dispensational grace is over but He gave you grace unto salvation and He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. And them that are sanctified was by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary which means He chose you in Christ, or in the Word. So you can say that God has perfected you all that you want to but if you're not believing in the Word, listening to the Word, growing in the Word, then He didn't perfect you. You wasn't included because you're predestinated in the Word. So then, that means that you didn't get it. You're just claiming it. And because you feel the rain on your body because it's poured out upon all flesh, as Joel said, then you feel safe. But you are going to find out at the midnight cry you don't have any oil in your vessel and you are not going to light up when the rest of them starts lighting up with this wonderful revelated understanding because of their love and interest in God rather than the world. You're going to find out you've got the love of the world in you and your interest and desire is in the world. That's close cut, folks. That's close cut. A man that trims up the meat, a meat cutter, he doesn't leave anything on there but the good. That's cutting the fat away. So then, I'm here to perfect your faith and as this Word comes it's not me speaking but God and to Him be the glory. I am but His temple of which ye are and He comes into my heart according to the measure He's given me, in your heart according to the measure He's given you. And if my measure has to be one and I'm called to be a teacher in that I was struck down, turned around and put in the ministry like Paul was, then I come to you trying my best to perfect your faith, to tell you these things, that if you do hear and take heed how that you hear then you come to know. And when you come to know you can believe in what you know, in that the righteous will understand. The wicked shall hear but not understand. So then, they that were foreordained unto eternal life, as Paul preached, they believed. The others did not. Paul said your blood be upon your own head. So while we take a few minutes here tonight to worship God I want you to search your hearts because this will soon be over. It will soon be gone. It's not much farther and the Lord will be coming to you that are looking for His coming. When I say that I'm talking about them that's looking for Him to come in the heavens. He will be coming. But to you that look for God where He will appear the second time without sin unto salvation, where He used the terms, I will come unto you and the world shall not see Me but ye shall see Me, through the eyes of understanding being enlightened. And I will suddenly come into My temple, whose temple ye are, to be glorified in My saints and all the world shall come and kneel before you and know that I have loved you. For they glorified God within me, Paul said, and coming in such a great cloud of witnesses therefore being compassed about with this great cloud of witnesses, the kingdom of God within you, the Christ of the throne is there and all of a sudden He's appearing from within, as to a natural appearing He will be, as to a physical appearing He will be, as a spiritual appearing He will be. And He's going to break forth into this body just as the light, as I say, breaks forth into a bulb it will come into the bulb first. Don't ever forget that. Somebody says, Well, when this room is dark, Brother Pike, all of a sudden the light comes and the room is lit up and we can see it. We have enough understanding to see it. But I tell you, you missed something. The light didn't come into this room until it came through the bulbs. It don't come in here until it comes through the bulbs. Only when the doors are opened and there is an exposure in the daytime, when the Day Star is shining, can you get it any other way. So then, folks, this world that we're speaking of, it's going to come through the bulbs. It's got to be a living filament and it has to come into you and this glory is to be made manifest in your mortal genes. And then the light from you will take away the curse of the intellectual darkness and the darkness of the world that's causing all of the corruption and eradicate from you the impurities of life. And then your environment will turn into the millennium and the healing and salvation and the trees with the leaves for the healing of the nation will be for your benefit. So, while we're here the altars are open and we're going to sing a chorus or two. Let's sing this little chorus here. (Singing) Sing it with me, now. (Singing) Can you sing that chorus again? (Singing) All right. So, life is like the mountain railroad. You know, it pays us to be ready. It always pays us to be ready. You never know when the Lord is going to call you. This little ticker down here is just thumping away. You've never got to life. You that here this message, you've never got to life unless you've been born again. With all of your scientific progging, all of your institutions you've never discovered life. You (?) life a little, as to the breath of life, but folks, when you are born again you meet the prince of life, even our Lord and Savior Jesus. And then you come to life for He breathed upon them and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost and this is what we're after. Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? If you haven't now is a good time. Having met certain disciples at the upper coast of Ephesus Paul said, Brethren, (they were disciples of John) he said, have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? They said, Holy Ghost? Said, We've not even so much as heard where there be a Holy Ghost or not. He said, Well, unto what baptism were you then baptized? They said, Unto John's baptism. And remember this: John was the one that baptized the Lord. He baptized Him in the Jordan. We've baptized in the Jordan. Some of you have been baptized in the Jordan. And He said, John indeed baptized with water unto repentance but when He comes He will baptize you with the fire and Holy Ghost, John said. I'll baptize you with water. Paul, when he heard that they had just been baptized unto repentance through John, what did he do? He rebaptized them. Somebody said, Well, I don't see where you have to be re-baptized. Folks, the Bible said repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin for there is none other name given under heaven whereby ye must be saved. And Peter commanded them to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin that they should receive the Holy Ghost unto them and their children and to as many as be as far off, even around the world. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. What I say to one I say to all. Why isn't all doing that. Someone says, But, Brother Pike, that's the way you believe. Now let me tell you how I believe. I'm not interested in how you believe. I'm not interested in how Brother Pike believes. I'm interested in what the Bible says. The Bible said he that God sendeth will speak God's word. This is what Brother Pike believes, is the Word. If you believe the Word then we're fellows. If you don't lets get together. Somebody say amen. Hallelujah! When I bring Zion again they will see eye to eye. Give me a key, Frank. (Singing) That's Calvary's saving plan. (Singing) Sing it again. (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Let's sing this chorus. (Singing) Sing it with me. (Singing) Sing it with me, can you? (Singing) Sing it one more time. (Singing) Let's lift our hands up. Our efforts are for world evangelism. We've still got a lot to do, a long way to go. We're trying our best to reach out around the world because Jesus said, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every living creature. And I'd like to do as much of that as I can. The writer said of the song that I cherish a lot of times is, Don't Let me Leave Behind An Unfinished Task. I want to do all that I can while I can because once we do whatever we're going to do here we can, never again, do anything for God in this realm of the unredeemed. Everything from then on out is God doing something for us, not to say as those things that God already is doing for us everyday. For he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast and this is our feast of charity. But remember there are spots and blemishes in your feast of charity and they are feeding in your midst and they are only here to spy out your liberties and to bring you into bondage to the intellectual reasoning and the captivity of those that hate your sole. David said, I looked to my right and left; I found no man that cared for my soul. But I found a man. I found a man. He'd not come along in David's time. David did not know of Him other than a prophetical utterance. I want to know Him of the Biblical terminology as to looking back on the testimonies, but having a personal experience with Him as Christ within me, which David did not have, I can say there is a man that careth for my soul and His name is Jesus. His name is Jesus. Let's sing that little chorus, Frank. (Singing) Can you sing it? (Singing) Can you sing it one more time with me? (Singing) You know, I want to say this again. I've told it many times but the story is told that in the fields of the missionaries that as a missionary preached the gospel he was telling about the lovely name of Jesus and redemption of sin and how that this redemption was in the name Jesus. And said there were people that came from all around and a being primitive and being among the natives they had to travel a long way by foot, some of them. so they came one on foot and he came and he listened. He came from many miles. He walked many miles according to the story. And he listened; very attentively his listened and he was so thrilled. And then he eventually left when the service was over. And then he went on his way. And the story says that he had walked so far on his way back home and then he realized that he had forgotten the name. And said then he turned around and walked all the way back and said to the missionary, said, Would you tell me His name again. Would you tell me His name again? (Singing. Begin tape three, side one. Singing) Let's lift our hands and close our eyes. (Singing) So then, He hath abolished death. Think about it children. We didn't get to elaborate much on that but think about that. He hath abolished death. That means he made an end of death. Death is no more. Oh, somebody says, I understand. No, I can tell you didn't but I want you to and God wants you to. I said, there is no more dead. Somebody says, Well, I know that, Brother Pike, and we pretend just like you do. We pretend there is no more death. Because you said it we believe it. Folks, I'm not pretending. There is no more death. Come on, folks. Somebody says, Well, I can't get it all together. Somebody said, Well, I got it all together but I don't know where I put it. That's the problem as somebody but do you know what? You're not giving the more earnest heed. I said He abolished. Tell me what the word abolish means? Does that mean it isn't anymore? Would you say that again? I said, Would you say that again? No more what? Well, why do we worry about it? Folks, tell me. You tell me there's nobody out there worried about dying? Let's be honest. The Bible said all liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire. Isn't that right? Wouldn't you like to be where you didn't fear death? The Bible said He that feareth death is not made perfect in love and love is as strong as death and faith worketh by love and salvation comes by faith and God is love. Isn't God in your heart? Let's say it again. The Lord has abolished death. Can you say that? The Lord He hath abolished death. That means He done away with it. We're not going to look for it no more, are we? Come on, folks. Aren't you looking forward to death? Somebody said I'm looking forward. When I die I'm going to be with Jesus. Wouldn't you like to stop looking forward to it? How many of you are a friend of death? Do you have any friends of death out there? Are you wanting to fellowship death? If you are you're the enemy of God because two can't walk together unless they be agreed. How many of you know that death is the enemy of God? Sure it's the enemy of God. Are you happy when it steals your children from you? steals your parents from you? when it takes your wife away, or takes away the husband? Are you happy over that? I know some folks are kind of happy. They'd like to see their companion go; they'd like to get somebody else's. But God help you. You're in a bondage to the flesh. You're in bad shape. You're not going anywhere anyway. You're already where you're going. Folks, I'm going to tarry on that just for a minute. You still haven't got it. But you think on it, For the rest of the week you think on it. What does that preacher mean? Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. What is the works of the devil? War with the hootsies and the tootsies. That's the works of the devil. From whence cometh war; is it not from the devil of lust. They're lusting after money. They're lusting after power. They're lusting after something. Wanting to be lord over God's heritage when God already has a lord. His name is Jesus. It has to be the devil that's doing that. The Holy Ghost doesn't do that. He's already Lord. How can you call me Lord, Lord and do not the things I tell you to do. So then, He done away with death. He loved you so much that He really died. He actually died at Calvary. Somebody said, Well, He didn't really die , Brother Pike. Oh, yes. He really died. Somebody said, No. No. You don't understand, Brother Pike. He didn't really die. He just went to sleep. No, He didn't go to sleep; He died. That's why that I can go to sleep. I don't have to die. I can go to sleep, not die. I can go to sleep and wake up; He died. He died. Going to sleep isn't dying. That isn't dying. When your body and spirit separates that isn't death. That's only human terminology. There's no way you can die unless you are a sinner. And when you are a sinner that means that once you are out of the realm of grace by your spirit departing from your body it has separated your spirit from the God spirit. That is death. My God! My God! Why hast Thou forsaken Me? Some are dead while they live, twice dead and plucked up by the roots. So then, He abolished death. I'm going to let you go but I'm going to repeat this. He abolished death. He done away with death. There is no more death. I want them to get this on the tape real good wherever it goes in the world, because, you know, some of you you're getting what they call gospel hardened. But them people out there they'll shout and dance and scream. This thing will strike them. Like somebody wrote the other day and said, This is like a wisdom of Solomon. But, as I said this morning, a greater than Solomon is here. This is the Word of the Holy Ghost. Said, Not you speaking but God, Himself, speaking. I know you don't get a hold of that but it's so anyhow. Words of life. Where shall we go; Thou alone hast the words of life, Lord. So then, He abolished death. And what did He do? He brought to light. He brought to understanding at Calvary. At Calvary He finally brought it to the human understanding. Never before had it ever been brought to the human understanding. In all of the four thousand years from the creation of the garden never had it come, with all the brilliance of the scientist down in Egypt. And did you know that for two thousand years from the time of Jesus' death that they have never discovered it, even way over here. But there is a little flock. Little flock fear not, it is thy Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. They've ever been learning and have never come to the knowledge of the truth. But if you keep searching you'll find the knowledge of truth, which is the knowledge of God. So then, He brought to life, to light life. It's life. I am the prince of life. I now bring to light. I bring you understanding. Now there is light. You've never found it and them from Calvary on down have never found it. Only the elect. Only the elect. And I have now brought life. It has come to understanding. You can understand how to have life. And I have abolished death. Not only that but this is the beautiful part. I have also brought to light immortality. When we say immortality we're talking about this mortal body. It is a mortal body that must be changed from mortality to immortality and this corruptible body must be swallowed up by incorruption. And this terrestrial body must be changed to a celestial body for there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. And there is a great mystery. To wit the redemption of our body for great is the mystery of godliness. But, folks, it's here. But you'll never get it until you can understand. So, He hath brought to light immortality. Can it be that there are some human bodies that are going to live on and on and on? Paul said, You don't have to worry about dying; that's over. But he said, I've a mystery. It's been revealed to me. We're not all going to sleep. We're all not going to sleep. All right. Let's just lift those hands up. I can tell that there is a minority. Though they don't understand, and I can tell they don't but they're willing to cleave to these words and they're feeling like, I do believe it. I do believe there is something there. I do believe there is something there. And you hold on to that because few there be that find this. Straight is the gate and narrow is the way, few there be that find it. Many shall try and not be able. See? This has to do with the translation. If you are a Christian, you love the Lord, that's fine. You're saved. Don't worry. Even a little baby that believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, just a spiritual babe, just desire the sincere milk of the Word. You're just as safe as you can be. That's right. God loves you. You have eternal life. But, folks, there is a world of difference in coming into the knowledge. Somebody said, Well, what is the difference, Brother Pike? Well, the difference is like this: When the twelve said, Jesus, what will we have? You know, we've done more that just believe, that is. We've left our homes. We've left our wives. He said, When I sit upon My throne ye shall sit upon twelve thrones beside me judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Twenty-four elders are sitting upon thrones. And then He said in the book of Revelation, For God hath made us kings and priests unto our God and these shall rule and reign with Him. So then, there are rewards that differ. The Bible said, These shall receive the greater damnation. And it said of Judas, it would have been better if you had never been born. And, folks, there are some that will receive the greater reward. The greater reward. They will be kings. They will be priests over there in that city. Somebody said, But I thought everybody was going to be alike, Brother Pike, because the Bible said every man got a penny. That's right; to enter into the vineyard you do. You get a penny. You can have eternal life. That's good enough. But, folks, there is more to it. You can have eternal life. See? In this world you can have life but there is more to having life, as to the breath of life. You can also be a billionaire. Is there any difference in being a billionaire with the breath of life, as to being a pauper that has to work in te hot sun all day for the crumbs? Is there any difference? There is a difference. There is a world of difference. So while you've got your hands up we're going to sing this little chorus. Somebody said, But you've done held me until the inspiration left, Brother Pike. That's fine. You didn't have any business with it to start with. That's just the rain on the unjust. You folks that have got that in your heart, it's like carrying those garments in a valise. You don't have to worry it will be right there with you. It won't never leave you, never forsake you. All you've got to do is just think on His mind and let that mind start thinking and you'll have a artisan well on the inside. Hallelujah! And you bring that water out of there for that thirsty body of yours with joy. And do you know what joy is? All of a sudden that mind speaks to you, or you mediate in that mind, and something comes to your mind saying, Oh, my God! look at that and that body starts jumping up and down like little raindrops. Do you love the Lord? All right. We're going to sing this together. Let's sing this chorus, Brother. Just lift your hands up and close your eyes. Let's just sing the little chorus I Love Him. You know, the Bible said if you love Me you'll keep my commandments. (Singing) Lift your hands up and close your eyes now. Search your hearts. The Bible said examine yourselves and see if your in the faith. (Singing) The Bible said He sent His Word and it healed them. This Word is a healing Word. It casts out devils. It breaks that chain of intellectual reasoning. It furbishes and refurbishes with the Word that spoke the world into existence. It brings you strength and health and youth and power eternally and forever. It is the Lord thy God that giveth the power to get wealth. His blessings maketh rich and addeth no sorrow to give you the desires of your heart if you will delight yourself in these things. Confess your sins, forsake them, everything that you do will prosper. Cover them, there's not anything that you do shall prosper. So then, let's put it all out in the open and let's just worship the Lord for just a few minutes. I don't practice as a rule trying to pray for you. If something severe comes up I pray for you. I pray for you all the time at home and occasionally I pray for you in here, as to laying hands on you. But I'm more interested in you growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus and trying to come to these things. I'm always praying for people. They bring their babies. They call on the telephone. They come in the middle of the morning or the night and they are always coming. You have the privilege to do that here. We should be praying one for another. Everybody should be praying. You should be able to pray the prayer of faith for everybody. Somebody said, Well, what do you do to do that? Believe the Word. Faith cometh by the hearing of the Word. Can you do that? Oh, yes, many hundreds of times God has blessed us with it. Many hundreds of times around the world. He still does. I was just praying for little John Paul the other day. He came up and said, Would you pray for me, Brother Pike? And his little ole faith went up to God. While some of you skeptics are reasoning he came and he was just delighting himself in the Lord and as his little hands went up and his heart went up I could feel the shower of the blessings of God and the power of the Holy Ghost came down upon him and he was having himself a time. Working down in the annex building when we were building down there, I remember the little ones that came and one right after another was filled with the Holy Ghost, filled with the Spirit of God and tears just streaming. They were just praising God as we worked down there day after day and it provoked the older ones to jealousy until the men just got to coming down and tears got to streaming down their cheeks and we were having a revival down there at the basement. Somebody said, Them was the good old days. That was the good old days, but how is it you say that yesterday was better than today? Like the song writer said, We're nearer home today than we were yesterday. And how is it that you say, and in the past was better? The Bible said you don't inquire wisely. It's not a matter of the good ole days. This is better than the good ole days. This is the best days. This is it. This is it. Somebody said, Well, I think it will do until it comes. No. You just missed the boat; this is it. This is it. While you've got your hands up let's just love the Lord once again. (Singing) You know, if you'd stop trying to worship the Lord with your body, as in your natural mind and get your mind from out yonder for just a few seconds and get your mind on God and begin to think about eating from the table of God and enjoying these things that's eternal__ Jesus said__ They said, We'd better give Him something to eat; He's beside Himself. He said, I have meat to eat that you know not of. He that overcometh I will give to Him to eat of the hidden manna. He'll eat of My flesh and drink of My blood. Have any men brought Him to eat? They thought He was beside Himself. (Singing) If you love Me you'll keep My commandments. Can you worship Him in spirit? God is a spirit. Do you know why you can't worship Him in spirit? Because you are under condemnation. You are under condemnation. See? You are not spending any time in worship. You're not spending any time in studying the Bible. You're not spending any time in meditation. You're not spending any time in conversation of the great wonderfulness of God. You're mind is on natural things. Even in your religious fervor you're still trying to do natural things and that's where your heart is. But God is a spirit. To have blessings with God and power with God and understanding of God you're going to have to worship him. Woman, in spirit, Jesus said. But we worship over in the mountain, she said. But now the day has come when you have to worship him in spirit for God is a spirit. He seeketh such to worship Him, as in spirit and in truth. Paul thought he was worshipping God but all he was doing was persecuting Christ until he got in the spirit after that he went down to the street called Straight and was baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus when He said, Paul, be baptized and wash away your sins. After that he began to worship God the great eternal spirit. Can you sing it again? I'm going to let you go. I marvel as I get ready to let you go tonight at the carnality that is still among you. I'm telling you, so help me God, the carnality. It is just a few, just a few. I'm going to ask you to do this. Now I know just about everyone of you probably will want to step forward when I say this but I don't want you to. But I would like for them that really, truly from their heart, not trying to slip in. You can't slip in. There's no way you can get in; you have to come through the Word. But the ones that really love the Lord to the extent that they'd love to change their life and they'd like to get into the things of God, I'd like for you to step up here right near this altar and I want to pray a special prayer for you tonight and ask God to do something for you. I really want to do it and I believe that He will do it. I believe that He will do it. I want you to step up here and I'm going to ask God, after seeing the vision last night of the resurrection__ I know it's the resurrection. I know it's the resurrection and though I've said many things here concerning the resurrection, still I have felt so much carnality until it's all so unreal. Did you know just me saying what I did, of asking you to step up here it broke that carnality and all of a sudden you realized you weren't fixing to leave and you put it behind you. It just kept interfering with God's mind every way. Don't you know that grieves the Lord when He gave His entire life for you? I want you to lift your hands up now and I want you to close your eyes. Though I pray for you night and day because I love you and Jesus loves you and I'm not respect of persons with you and God is not respect of person with you. He loves every one of you. He loves your little children. He loves the husband and the wife. He loves every effort that you make, whether naturally or spiritually, if it's dedicated to Him and if it's clean and upright. And he will not pervert you in your cause. He will not confront you in your cause to stop you. He will work with you if you want to do something. But I tell you something, folks. It's so much better not to try to incorporate Him into your life and let Him incorporate you into His plan and program. He's got a plan and program and if you'll let Him incorporate you into His plan and program it will be a different world for you. My! What a thrill you'll have. And while you lift your hands up and while you close your eyes and they're playing softly on the music I want to pray. I want you to pray with me because I'm going to pray sincerely. Now. I want you to think on this. You think on it now. You think seriously as you pray. Examine yourself first, see if you be in the faith. That is, in the Word. In the last days many shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. So there is only one faith by the Word. And you think on this: Does this preacher have the right to remit my sins? Am I hearing this man right? Should I really be afraid because of conscience sake, submitting myself to every ordinance? Knowing that he is God's revenger set there to execute judgment upon them that do evil? that judgment begins at the house of God? Doth he really have the power to retain or to remit my sins? Come on. You know you don't believe that, do you? No. You don't believe that. Well, somebody says, you don't have to believe that to go to heaven. I thought you were saved by faith in the Word. I thought that's what the Word said. If that isn't what the Word said would somebody do me the favor of correcting me so that I wouldn't be in error? Do you believe what I said when I said sin is gone and death is gone? Did you really absorb that tonight? that death has been abolished and that you've been made perfect forever? Somebody said, Well, I accepted that. I didn't ask you if you accepted that. The rain is on the tare as well as on the wheat. I said, Do you believe that down in your heart? With the heart you believe, not with your human senses. Do you believe that from your heart? You believe unto righteousness. It translates you into His Christ; into the spirit of Christ. And if you believe that we have__ Do you believe that we have the power to bless you? Do you believe we have the power to curse you? Did you know, as far back as Balaam, and Balaam loved the wages of unrighteousness, but because he was a prophet God accepted that as to whoever he blessed was blessed and whoever he cursed was cursed. It was an ordination. Did you know the Scribes and the Pharisees, though Jesus disagreed with them, because they went about to destroy Him Jesus said, You still do what they tell you because they sit in the seat of Moses. They don't do what they should do but they are telling you the right thing. So then, Paul said whether the gospel is preached for contention or otherwise, I herein rejoice but it is my duty to tell you the truth. I want to bless you. I got a letter today from someone and they were__ Really they were pleading. They didn't act like they were pleading, as to the writings. They were just more or less telling me their problems and passing it off as though they had the victory and everything was real good with them and that everything was under control. But it wasn't good with them. It was a bad situation. Very bad and looks like it will be even worse unless God undertakes. The same individual that thought too highly of themselves and thought for sure they were going to do what they were going to do and God was going to stand with them and it was just going to be a great thing. And though we warned them and some of the Brethren warned them they went straight and did what we warned them not to do and now they write the letter and it's really a letter of regret. And it's amazing, the thing that happened exactly the way that we told them. Now they don't know how to get out of it. But isn't it better not to get in that? When I speak these words they bring a blessing or they bring a curse because it's not me speaking but God that careth for your soul. And according to the believing judgment begins at the house of God. To believe in this wonderful God of the Word as He voices Himself through, (what can we say?) the rustic oral expressions of one who has screamed and hollered so much that it would just about be worn out, as to the throat, but nevertheless, it's still God. I want you to lift your hands up now. The carnality has gone out the door and I feel that carnal yoke broken. It just tore me up to feel Satan bind you the way he bound you so quick when I was trying to get something over to you and knowing that this goes on tape and the blood will be on your hands; but you did break it. When you came up here it broke it. Satan had all of His figures together, the one, two, three and A, B, C. And when we pulled that on him it knocked him for a loop in his intellect. He works through the natural, carnal mind. And he didn't know what to do with it. Your minds went out to God. So then, we're going to pray for you and I want you to believe with me. Now. You say, Well, I'm all right, Brother Pike. I really don't need the blessing. Well, if you don't then pray for somebody else. You pray with me for the people because they need the blessing and we should pray for them. If we're already being blessed then let's pray for them. Let's lift our hands. You say, Well, I'm a minister. Well, that's so much the better. If you are a minister you should pray. You should be one with me. If I'm a minister then we should be one and if you're not with me then one of us is wrong, either I or you. Somebody says, Well, it ain't me. Well, if it's not you then that's between you and the Lord. I'm just doing all I know to do. The preparation of my heart is from God. I'm doing what He told me to do, from what I understand that He told me to do. So, while we've got our hands up remember, this is the resurrection. Now if you can call back the things that I've told you, even in this service, and the few other things that I spoke to you about, about the resurrection, you would know what I'm saying. Folks, listen to me. You're going to miss the resurrection if you're not careful. Oh, somebody says, There's no way, Brother Pike, it's going to be so great. Everybody is going see this thing and__ I didn't say that it wouldn't be like that. You know, it's all right. It's between you and death. (Begin tape three, side two.) ..... I'm telling you. I'm telling you. Did the Jews miss it? They missed it a hundred thousand miles, as we say. There He stood in their presence. Even Mary and Martha missed it until He finally told them when He stood at the tomb of Lazarus and said__ He was so moved because of the tears; He loved them so much and loved Lazarus. And He didn't want to see them grieved; they were friends. And He said, Your brother will live again. Oh, we know that he shall live. In the resurrection we know, Master, that he shall live. He shall live again in the resurrection. But Jesus said to Martha and Mary, I am the resurrection. So let's lift our hands and let's close our eyes and let's call on the name of the Lord, can we do that together? Precious, wonderful heavenly Father, we lift our hands. You said lift up holy hands without wrath and without doubting and we lift up our hands without wrath of anyone, O Lord, having no ought against any living human being. O God, forgive us our trespasses for we do forgive those that trespass against us, even from our heart. And we lift our hands up to heaven and we ask of Thee, sweet, precious, loving Holy Spirit, to purge us. Make us a vessel unto honor. Glorify your sweet loving name and break the yoke from off of these darling people, my precious brothers and sisters, and take away the yoke for Thou art the Master. I'm but a servant; they're Your children. I ask you to do it in Jesus Christ's name, that name of that wonderful Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And I feel the yoke broken. I feel the Holy Ghost falling. I feel the Holy Ghost falling right now. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! (Tongues) Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord