The Illuminated Mind Has Come

Well, let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus, Frank. (Singing) Sing it one more time. (Singing) You can be seated. We got a victory today over the building down here. The rain kept threatening and we kept praying and asking the Lord to please work with us, and He did and they finally got the top on. So the top is finished. It's on, the flat part and the pyramid. The whole thing is finished. The super-structure of the building is finished. With the two small floors and the pyramid it's five stories and it's finished. And it is superly built. God has done a real good job of building it. And the Brethren worked right along with Him and He made use of the skill and the talents that they offered Him and directed the thing and let us know what needed to be done. Now, there is really not anything for you to do on the building. There is a lot of work to be done yet. We've got to set the windows in and it's standard windows, which means that probably about sixty-five dollars a window, or something, we'll be able to set those windows in. That's quite a lot of windows. They'll be the insulated windows. The only difference there will be between those and the ones in the Parliamentary House will be that these will be aluminum and those others were plastic. They will be insulated windows. They will be the flip out. We can just flip them out and wash them and they will be just a fraction of expense compared to what the others were. I think the others were about maybe over two hundred dollars a window but they were customized and these are standard. So they're about sixty something dollars a window. It's not much trouble to put those in. We've already got the windows cut for them and framed and all we have to do is just cut the plywood out and set them in, which doesn't take very long. And then we're about ready to start stuccoing and finishing up the work to where the building will look like the rest of the buildings. And we still have to put the sheet rock in and we have to put the fixtures in, the plumbing fixtures, and we have to put the electrical. That means doors and base and carpet, a number of things, cosmetics, they have to be done to the building but it's not a whole lot, in the sense that you've got from now until school time to get that building ready for your children. And that's not a hard task at all. It's springtime, summer and the Lord's blessing you. If you work together and have any concern at all to have a coordinated effort, then you can do that. Now, this I'm not sure of but I understand that Brother Umberger and Brother Douglas wants to put the sheet rock up for me and they're experts at that. I certainly hope they do. If they do that means that it will be a blessing to us because they do such a terrific job. They've done some work in my house. They've done carpentry work and sheet rock work in my house and it was just superb. So this will be a blessing in the event that they do that. And Tony was telling me that just as quick as he comes back from his Dad's funeral he said, I want to get started on that building and get your electrical in, Brother Pike. So, we just work together a little bit and you can__ Nobody has really hurried on the building. They've just taken their time, but we got pressed right there at the last to get the roofing on because of the little time__ They let a little time lapse instead of really pressing in there a little bit for the rain and today there were some of them that just stayed there until they got it finished. And I think they finished it, maybe, I don't know, maybe about five o'clock, five thirty. But, anyway, it's a blessing to the work. The building is worth a lot of money. A lot of money. It's your building. It's God's building. It's people's building who belongs to God and God has given you the oversight of it because you're here. The building, if it was put off out yonder somewhere, it would probably be at least a million dollars. So then, it is your building. Even sometimes when they build a million dollar building like that they still don't build it the way that we build it in the superstructure because sometimes they use smaller timber. And we use large timbers for the structure of it so that when the children are in school you don't have to be worried about the wind just knocking it over. We know that the wind can come and the wind can knock these buildings down, just knock them over like it was in a bowling alley. God can do that so easy, but He did tell us to build them to where the wind wouldn't get them. And we have tried to do that. We've tried to have the foundations sometimes dug and let it lay for maybe a year so the ground can pack and then pour the cement on it and pour deep footings and deep foundations. And after we build the buildings to the strength that we understand to build them to, then we don't trust in the strength of the building; we trust in God that He will bless those buildings that we can find favor and He will take care of our buildings through prayer and take care of us and our children, bless our substance. And He did say that if we do what he ask us to do He would rebuke the devourer for our sake, that he should not destroy the fruits of our grounds. Even our children. He said your children should be as olive plants about your table, which is a plant filled with oil that symbolizes life. So then, we have completed the structure by the help of the Lord and the blessings of the Lord. And it is paid for. We have a few thousand dollars there that are involved that we'll be clearing away in just a little while. We didn't borrow any money on it. We just went on by faith. And everything here at Bethlehem, there is hardly anything here that's not paid for. All the buildings and the land, and whatever, the presses, and we determined that we would build the building by faith. That's the way we've been doing these buildings and God has stood right with us. So if you didn't have a part in it then you should feel bad. And you that did have a part in it you should feel good, because not only have you built a building, as to a memorial to God that is here and around the world but you have also built something for your own community for a benefit to you and your children and a testimony to them. And not only that but there is a number of things that this contributes to, because you did it. And it has great significance. We had a letter today from Uganda. Brother Silas wrote and said he appreciated so much the money that was spent on him while he was here and while he was staying and also the generator and the PA system that the Brethren have given him. And he said, And one of the most outstanding things was the refreshing that he got in what is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which he had never heard before. And said, It was so refreshing that we look forward, Brother Pike, to your coming into Uganda and preaching here and running us a crusade. And said that they would set it up and they're talking about some things now that they are going to try to set up some meetings that will run from five to a hundred thousand people. You pray that God will do whatever He wants to do. There are a lot of people here that need to be doing something for God. I want to do my little bit for God, too. Well, we'll go back over to the fourth chapter of the book of Revelation. And this time it is the same. "John said, And I saw a door open in heaven." Now with this, as to the third chapter of the book of Revelation, the end of the church ages. The fifth chapter, the book of redemption. And then in Revelation where the angel said one foot on the land, and said, one foot on the sea, roared like a lion. And then on over in the book of Revelation it said, And the temple of the tabernacle was open in heaven. So, all of these things they sound mysterious to people who have never heard. Many of you have heard and many of you have had things revealed to you but it is very mysterious to people who have never heard. As a matter-of-fact, it is so mysterious that in all these ages, all down through the years I have never heard anybody explain it. And I'm sure that God has given it to different people but I've never been privileged to hear them explain it. Perhaps you have. Perhaps He has already explained it to you but it was very mysterious to me. I went through the book of Revelation many times until one day the Lord unveiled it. And when He unveiled it then great is the mystery but He made me to understand. He said, John, I'm going to make you to understand, and so He made him to understand. He said, Daniel, I want to make you to understand and He made him to understand. Now, there are no Bible scholars that ever get the Revelation of the book of Revelation. There are no professors that ever get it. There are no colleges that ever get it; it has to be revealed. They have tried for many long years and they've never been able to penetrate that veil of the mystery of the book of Revelation. Not only that, but even through the Bible they've never been able to do it. But they have come up with commentaries and all kind of things, historically speaking, and dates and whatever. And some have come up with some revelation but then there is still a vast difference in receiving a revelation and receiving THE Revelation of Jesus Christ. So, in this we see these things that we spoke of and when we go to comment on it I don't come up here, like I was telling somebody the other night, I don't come up here with a planned program. And I don't come up here with notes and I don't come up here having read something over here and decided I was going to preach on it, or tried to put a sermon together before I come. I don't go that. See? First of all, the reason I don't do that is, I don't want to get in God's way. Now, there are people that do. There are many preachers that do that and that's their business and I have nothing to say about it. That's whatever they want to do and they preach some good sermons and they bring out some good things. And they do a lot of research. Now someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, don't you believe in studying? I do. The Bible said study to show yourself approved, a workman unto God that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth. And I've read the book of Revelation through many times. I've been through it many times. See? Through and Through. But the thing is, that doesn't have anything to do with Him talking when we come up here. What I've read and what I've studied has nothing to do with that. Someone would say, Well, how do you get this, that you just come up here and you expect Him to say something? Well, I get it out of the Bible. I get it the same way as when the Bible said, And in that day they will deliver you up before the judges and before the courts and before the powers of the land, and take no thought before hand what ye shall say, neither premeditate for in the self-same hour it shall be given unto ye as to what ye shall speak for it shall not be you speaking but your Heavenly Father speaking from within you for God is within His temple. Now, I say this, if it is so that that is right, that we should not do that when we go to court before the unjust how much more should we not come up here and interfere with what God wants to say. If he would speak there how much more will He speak to His people here. So, I just come up here to see if the people are hungry. If they are hungry then He will feed them. If they are not hungry then I can preach to them, because I'm a preacher but it still won't be like Him just speaking right straight out to you. I'll speak what He tells me and I'll tell you what He has taught me. But the difference is where the Bible says they shall all be taught of God. They shall all be taught of God. Even the Pharisees and Scribes that were so learned; they were such great men. And when Jesus came to the temple all the little children began to cry out, Hosanna unto the Lord of Host and the King of Glory. And they wanted them to get out of the way and they said, Get these kids away from here. What is this? Or they forbid the children and He said, Oh, no, don't do that. He said, Have you never read in the Scripture where out of the mouths of babes and sucklings God hath perfected praise. And so then, the Bible said if we hold our peace then the rocks will cry out praise to Him....to be praised. The trees praise Him. In the vision that I saw of the revelation when God gave it to me years ago when He began to bring this to me when the little light appeared before me and it came up before me and I looked and there it was just coming out of nowhere, just about the size of the head of a little straight pin. When it came up before me at a little distance, and I looked and there it was, and then it grew bigger and bigger and bigger and I explained to you how that as it moved toward me it grew bigger and as it grew bigger it began to show the profile of a man and that man was Jesus. And as it came close to me then I was so awesomely struck until I stood there fascinated so that I couldn't get a loose. It was like I'd been charmed by this great wonderful thing and I kept looking and looking and something kept saying bow down, bow down. And I couldn't bow down because I was so fascinated and I was so struck by this fascinating thing. And then just before he got to me he kept moving very slowly toward me. His eyes were so steady upon me and they were so penetrating and when He got right close to me all of a sudden and unseen force just picked me up and laid me down on my face and then I went around and around, like in a maze. But before He got to me, you remember how I told you that as He approached me the trees began to do obeisance. As He came down the road they bent over like somebody bowing their heads. All along the road they would bow down to Him. And the big rocks, the huge rocks, they would roll up like out of the socket and out of the crevice and roll up and roll over like they were doing obeisance unto Him. I've never seen nothing like it in my life. So this is what I'm saying. When we come here we come here trusting God and believing that God would be with us and that God would bless us. And whenever we're in trouble, remember? where the Lord put the ring on the finger saying, I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee but Lo, I shall be with you in the time of trouble and the time of need. And He's given you the same promise because He said, Lo, I'm with you always, even unto the end of the world. That's Bible. Faith in the Word. So, when we come up here I come up here and I just feel around to see if you're hungry. And if I don't feel any hunger I don't want to scold you, I just want to talk to you a little bit, exhort you a little bit as I see the day approaching and just ease on and go on because a lot of you work all day long and you're tired, you know, and you're weary. And so I go through the same day and I minister practically all day long. I'm doing something all day long and sometimes up at night, too. But, nevertheless, God takes care of me and gives me strength. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. And though you grow weary, you grow tired, He still always renews your life and your strength. Not only will He do it now but He will do it always. It will always be that way. Somebody says, Well, does He really do that way? So help me God He does it that way. So then, that means that we come up here and like talking to you now, I'm just talking, just feeling around because I don't feel any hunger and I'm just feeling around to see if anything is out there tonight. See? So if it is I'll pick up a little old thought here and I'll take a Scripture here and I'll begin to bring it to your mind. And perhaps you've already heard it when I bring it to your mind, but I pick it up because you're familiar with it and that way I can make contact with you like that and then after that we can get into the mind of God. Like the Bible said, John was in the spirit on the Lord's Day and we enter into the mind of God, which is the Spirit. And then when we get into the Spirit His words are a mind. It's the Christ mind. It's spirit. It's life. It's truth. And when we enter into that, our mind enters into His mind, then we're in the Spirit and then we walk in the Heavenly places. This is always the way the Lord worked. When the Lord would come to a farmer He didn't start talking abut mechanics. Whatever the man's mind was naturally occupied with, that's what He entered in through and he would say as to a farmer, Say not four months and then cometh harvest. Look unto the fields they are white unto harvest already. And He would enter right in and convert that man's mind from a natural allegoric thing into the Revelation of Jesus Christ, or what that harvest field represented, or why He had let there be a harvest field, or why He had let there be a farmer. And why did God let there be a star? And why did He let there be a moon? And why did He let there be an ocean? Why did He let all these things be? Somebody would say, Well, He created the world, Brother Pike, he was doing that, you know, so we could have a world. Now. I know that's what you think. That is, some of you, and I know that's what you believe and that's fine. I'm not here to dispute that with you, nor with Einstein, or anybody else. You know, that's their world. That's the land of Esau. That's what they believe. That's what they're given to. That's what they understand and I don't have anything to say about it. And they would intellectually dispute with me for the rest of my life but, folks, I can tell you, if you'll receive my word as a shepherd, that wasn't why He did it. He didn't do that for that purpose. Everything that God made naturally, down to the very blade of grass, everything was for an allegoric reason that God might send a shadow, a fore-runner of that wonderful heavenly world. And that world that Adam would have dwelt in forever in that Celestial world, had he conceived of that Shekinah glory, it would have been such a great wonderful Celestial world that you would have never had one want, or desire. Never. Everything would have been just completely filled and satisfied every second throughout eternity. And that world will be back. At the end of the millennium when the millennium comes and everything is restored in the millennium then it will be here. I say be back. That is, it's been here throughout eternity in the mind of God. And over on the other side, as we say. We use the terms for human intellect and for their understanding, over on the other side. It's always been there. See? Not only has it always been there but we've always been there, too. See? We also are, as to the sons of God. From everlasting to everlasting and before the world ever was I am, Jesus said. Someone would say, Well, how does that make us to be that, Brother Pike? Because the Bible said as He is so are we in Him. And whatever God wanted us to be that's what He made Him. And today what He is at the right hand of God and what He accomplished in His lifetime, then that's what we are. That's what we are. All right. So then, this is what I'm saying tonight. Now, it depends__ I've got your attention now and I begin to pick up your spirit just a little bit, but I don't feel much strength tonight from your spirit. I don't feel much drive. The other night there was a terrific press in and drive. But, anyway, I don't feel much. Somehow on a Wednesday night, on a Friday night we just feel like, Well, there aren't too many here and after all this is Wednesday night and this is Friday night. Well, how many of you know that God is still God on Wednesday nights and Friday nights? How many of you believe God comes to church on Wednesday night? Friday night? And Sunday morning, too. All right. So then, if God is here it's exciting, isn't it? Isn't it exciting where God is? If the president was here would you be excited? I don't know about that now. There have been some presidents you might have been excited about and you might would this one. I don't know. I'm not critical of him. But, anyway, I'm just saying, you know, a lot of things, a lot of water has gone under the bridge that makes you wonder abut things. But, nevertheless, we do know that God is here. Not only is God here but wouldn't it be exciting if Gabriel, and if those great angels were here, like Michael and Gabriel, and those great wonderful angels of God? Wouldn't that be exciting? Angels are here. The angel of the Lord encamped round about them that love the Lord and they watch them. They watch them. You know, they're standing there watching them just as if Gabriel would say to Michael say, Michael, look at Him. Look at Him. That's the babe. Isn't he beautiful? Look at him! Oh, somebody would say, Brother Pike, you're beside yourself. I know. Paul said, If I am I'm beside myself for Christ. Nevertheless, that's the way it is. The angel came and he stood and he looked at Gideon and Gideon was so much in despair, he was so torn up, the enemy had come in and robbed the camps. They didn't have any food. It had just left them desolate and the angel was just standing there looking at him, you know, saying, Oh, thou mighty man of valor. And Gideon, he was over there trying to figure out, no doubt, who in the world he was talking about because he didn't feel like no mighty man, period. But, nevertheless, this angel wasn't looking at his defeat. He wasn't looking at the poverty. He was looking at that time that was just a little ways ahead of Gideon when God was going to shake Gideon, make him a great leader and send him over there and he was going to win a whole war, just woosh! like that. So mighty a man of valor he was. And sure enough he proved to be just exactly that. And that's the way he sees you. He looks at you and he sees the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular, without spot, without blemish, without wrinkle, justified and sanctified and perfected forever. Made perfect by the blood of the Son of God, made perfect by the Lamb, and that there he is, Gabriel, as Michael would say, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. There he is and he is God's perfect, perfect man. I wish we could just go through this, you know, like we did with a brother or two the other day, just dropping in a few little thoughts. I wish we had the hunger here and the people with the desire here to do that when we come to church, which we don't find, but I mean as a rule. But, I wish we could go through with it like I did my wife the other day when we were alone just riding up the road, of the beauty of it and just take it step by step. You know, I say a lot of things here but I kind of sporadically say them. I just kind of break in and out and I say things way over here somewhere and away over here somewhere and we just pick up a little bit in the different places and we don't use a sequence unless we can find a real continuity of strength of thought from you. So, we just kind of ramble around a little bit here and not trying to preamble in our mind, but sometimes it appears to be that way because we can't find anything as to be consecutive out there in the audience. We don't get to tell you the beauty of His expression. The multitude of His thoughts are beautiful. In His time He has made all things beautiful. So we don't get to express it to you like we do, maybe one or two, or like sometimes I do my wife when I have a chance to do that. (Begin tape one, side two.) Down in the basement sometimes we talk just a little bit and I don't go back and say, Well, we're going to read from chapter four and I'm going right back to the open door here and whatever, but that's what we talk about, is the Word of God and it goes back to these things. I only try to do that here just to kind of give you a foundation, a little guide of mind and a little anchor for the soul to where you can intellectually anchor and kind of have something to use for a launching pad as we go out into the heavenlies. And we can't go out into the heavenlies unless He takes us out into the heavenlies. And I live in the heavenlies. I live in the heavenlies. I'm just like you. I'm just a natural man and I have natural problems of all kinds night and day, natural things to cope with. Life is a few days and full of problems, Solomon said, but nevertheless, I live in the heavenlies. And it's such a thrill to me because my heart and my mind is constantly opened up and just soaring around in the heavens. And the great wonderful magnitude of that which is out yonder in the spirit world. And the Bible said if you're born of the Spirit walk in the Spirit. See? And the Bible said to bring the body under subjection. Paul said, If I preach to you and I don't keep my body under subjection then, I, myself shall become a cast away. So then, what I do I keep under my body. That is, the inner man stays on the inside. He don't come out into this body. I keep under my body and I put a bridle on the human senses and I bring it into subjection so that I won't be a cast away. So then, when we look here, I see this tonight but I'm not picking up enough strength out there to say anything so we'll probably just continue to exhort just a little bit and let you go home in a few minutes. But we will just kind of ramble about here just a little bit saying a few things and it might acquaint you with something that might in the future might help you when we come together, as to a continuity of thought and cause you to become spiritual. Paul said, I'd like to speak unto you as unto spirituals. Pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation. Seeing that God is a spirit He wants to deal with your spirit. And He wants us to be out of the natural mind, to get out of the natural man. The natural image of the natural man is abhorred in His sight. I tell you over and over, it doesn't matter how you look. It doesn't matter appearance. It doesn't matter your physique. It doesn't matter your education. It doesn't matter what you are. It is abhorred in His sight. And your intellectual ability is abhorred in His sight. And all He looks for is one thing. It's your spirit. He is seeking, looking, searching out the heart. His eyes are to and fro in the earth looking for the upright in heart. And God is a spirit and He's looking for that spirit. And like Jesus told the woman at the well said, Well, our Father Jacob said we could worship over here in the mountain and over here we worship. He said, Woman, you worship you know not what. You don't know what you're worshipping. Now, isn't that something? Here is a woman standing over here and He's telling her, and He said, You don't even know what you're doing. You don't even know what you're worshipping. And that's the way the church world is today. If I preach just a little bit along it's because I can't find that other just to go into and teach. Paul said, I'm a preacher and a teacher and I try not to shout at you to really get exuberant tonight, but just a little exhortation. So then, He said, Woman, you worship you know not what. He said, Salvation is of the Jews. Now, we know what we worship. That is, He was saying I'm a Jew. That is, He was born among the Jews, though He wasn't of the Jew blood. So He said, You don't know what you worship but we know what we worship because salvation is of the Jews. And He said, God is a spirit. God is a spirit and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth. And even the Jews had not come far enough to understand that God would personify Himself in a body called Jesus Christ and that the only way that they could relate to that spirit was through that atonement of body. They thought they could do that by self-righteousness. And, of course, a lot of people are still in that condition today. They still think that they're real good folks and that because they're good folks they're special folks. They're special in appearance. They're special in age. They're special in money. They're special in intelligence. They're special in ability. They've got special callings and because of this, well, God will especially come to them. But I tell you, He has no respect of persons. He doesn't even regard the person. He hates the person. The human person that webster refers to as person, He nailed it to Calvary to say, I am going to bring a body into the world, as we would say here. I'm going to make that body live a perfect life to where there is not one spot, not one wrinkle, not one blemish. There will never do any wrong. And then when I finish with that body I'm going to hang it up at Calvary and I'm going to smite it with all my furry so that everybody will know what I think about the image of humanity. Whereas, and of course, when we come here we get into just a thought or two of what we'd like to get into a continuity of. But then, as I ask the question of some of the Brethren I said, Brethren, would God smite His own image. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, don't you know we're made in the image of God? And I say, Well, if that be true would God smite His own image? He did smite His image. The Bible said, And He was the express image of God. Jesus was the express image of God. Which means the given image, or the exact likeness. So, then he said, And I will hate your image in the morning. And Calvary was the morning. And from the evening until the first day was the morning. That is, until the morning it was the first day, as we say in the Bible. So when Adam fell night set in and the intellectual set in, and the tree of knowledge set in and there was darkness. And if creatures of darkness came to be and America is here and the world is here and the world is that pit of darkness that he fell into. And from evening until the morning. God walked in the evening time, the cool of the evening, and from evening until the morning it was the first day. And then when Calvary came then He said, Now, light has sprang up to them that set in the regions of the shadow of death. All right, let's go back for them that maybe hasn't heard. The shadow of death means the law. The law was a shadow, Paul said, of that which was to come. And these that set in the regions of the shadow of death, unto them great light has sprang up unto them. And now, He said, as a young preacher He said, And this is the condemnation that has come into the world, that men love darkness rather than light. Jesus was a young preacher. He didn't have but three years. He was in His thirties and He was a young preacher. So preaching__ Some of you are still young preachers. I preached when I was real young. I got in the ministry when I was real young. See? But on the inside of Jesus He was the Ancient of Days whose hair was as white as the wool. And He showed that at the end of the Church ages when John saw Him there and said, His hair was as white as the wool, because it had to do with the Ancient of Days. And there He was hid behind the veil of youth that He might catch the attention of the people and present Himself at His great magnificence and splendor that all the world might do obeisance unto the Spirit of Life and have the abundance of life for Jesus said, I am the Prince of Life and I've come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly, as I said, which means filled up and overflowing. So then, He smote the image and He said, This is what I think about the flesh. This is what I think about the image. This is what I think about it. No flesh is going to glory in My sight. All flesh has corrupted its way before God and I'm going to smite it and you're going to see what I think about it. Not even Jesus could be justified by the law though He kept every jot and every tittle. So then, He did away with all flesh. And He showed us what he though about the image. And then the Bible said, As we have borne the image of the earthly so shall we bear the image of the heavenly. That is to say, if this is the image of God why did He call it the image of the earthly? Why does He refer to it as the image of the earthly? And why does He say, because we have borne the image of the first man Adam, as to that that is made out of the dust, so shall we bear the image of heavenly, meaning the second man Adam, in that He said, Ye are from the dust and to the dust thou shalt return. But I didn't come from the dust. I came from heaven. Father, restore unto me the joys that I had with Thee before the world ever was. And the second man Adam made a quickening spirit, that was the image of the heavenly. He came from Heaven and the Bible said put ye on the image of the Heavenly. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provisions for flesh to fulfill the desire, or the lust, thereof for I have smitten the flesh. And Paul said there is a sentence of death in the body and because the sentence of death is there then the flesh has to die. So he said, Oh, wretched man that I am, as to this image. Not the image of God but Oh, wretched man that I am. That is to say, through the fall and through that of the beast and that of the serpent, the Shekinah image of which Adam was made in, passed away. Adam illuminated by that image, or that Shekinah, or he emanated from that Shekinah and he was innocent. And as long as that Shekinah was one with Adam and he was under the covering of that then he was the son of God and he was that perfect one. But as quick as Adam turned to follow Eve, his flesh showing himself to be the weaker, as to the feminine, and listening to the tree of knowledge and going after the worldly diplomacies of that day, as we say, then when that happened then all of a sudden the image of Christ left. And he was no longer in the image of God but the image went away. So then, though we were created in the image of God through Adam yet it was lost through the fall by the nature that it took on. And the nature is what causes the image. And when it took on a perverted nature then it lost the nature of Jesus Christ, which was the illumination of that wonderful Shekinah. And that wonderful nature in which man was made it never came back until Calvary and when it came back at Calvary it entered into the womb of Mary. And it entered into a blood cell and it made a molecular structure. And then that as it made it, it made it not as to the molecules, as to the electrical quickening that Adam had been switched over to when the Shekinah left that he might be kept alive by the friction, or the cosmic energy of the cosmo coming down into the body. That wasn't the way that he was kept alive. He was kept alive by the wonderful quickening that Adam had, which was an eternal quickening that's called eternal life. Adam was illuminated with that. When he left that then it never returned until Christ came and when Christ came He projected himself into that body for He was illumination. He was that image of God that Adam was in before he departed from it. He was the male that the female was taken out of, as when the darkness came over Jesus and the church was born, or the Bride came, or when Adam had the darkness come over him and Eve was taken out of his side. Or that is, where the rib was, we say. So that means that Shekinah image came back at Calvary but it didn't come on us to illuminate us outside. For the Bible said He's above us. He's in us and through us. When Paul preached to them on Mars Hill as to the unknown God he expressed this. But he came into our heart and our spirits became illuminated. And our spiritual being, which is our angelic being on the inside, our inner man, this man that runs all the way through our blood stream and our blood cells, and wherever our natural man is there is another man as a spirit quickening all the way through. And this life came into that spirit and that spirit translated into that Christ life. And that Christ life now, as to that lost Shekinah, has been restored and come back. And now that spiritual angelic being on the inside is eternal because it's been translated into a oneness of spirit where Jesus said, Father, make these one even as we are one. I've translated my spirit into your spirit, Heavenly Father, now let them translate their spirit into My spirit and let them become one with Your spirit through My spirit and all of us will be one. That is to say, take Eve out of Adam and the children out of Eve. And then comes the time when the Bible said, And in the fullness of time He would gather all things in heaven and in earth into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and when Calvary came He gathered them all back in. The woman came out and the children came out and then He gathered them back in. Said, Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, make no provisions for the flesh, being crucified, as to the body of death, baptized into His death. Having put on Christ now we are resurrected with Him to be alive for ever at the right hand of the Father. And so that means that we dwell in Heaven. We are they that dwell in Heaven. And of course, it takes a lot of detail and a lot of revelation to go into that but many of you understand and many of you know, and many things we have said here ourself to help enlighten you on those things. So then, we see that the Shekinah glory came back. That image came back but everybody didn't get that image. But there is one thing that they did get; the blood is on the Mercy Seat. The blood is on the Seat of Atonement. It is on the Mercy Seat. And the flesh does get the benefit. Though the flesh is a tare; yet it does get the benefit. Though the flesh is Esau; yet it does get the benefit. Though it's the human senses of the bondschild and is in bondage to the beggarly elements of the world by the human senses that's the only life that it has. And when the human senses of sight, smell, taste, hearing and all these things go out then Esau is dead. But there is an inner man that does not depend upon the cosmic energy, as to survival. He has Christ in him. And we are born again and this potentiality, as I have said before, some worms have it. Some worms don't have it. And the worms that do have it they go through the metamorphosis and become a butterfly. And they become a beautiful heavenly creature. The ones that don't have it they crawl into their holes at night and continue to be a worm. And when God said, Jacob, thou worm, having fell through Adam and become as that of the serpent and being put on the belly and that all of the labor is for the belly and the poison of asps under the lips, then He said thou worm. The worm. Then He said, the worm has climbed up into the upper lintel. The old serpent, he hath climbed up into the upper lintel. That is, I put the blood of mercy there. I put Jesus' blood from the foundation of the world by the foreknowledge of God I put this blood on the Seat of Atonement, on the Mercy Seat. And because of this the Einsteins now dwell in Heaven, and the people of the world now dwell in Heaven. And the ultimatum of this will be that though I've smitten the head of the serpent at Calvary, or before the world ever was, and I made it manifest at Calvary, it's the old saying, the tail don't die until the sun goes down. And like we said, as to the Russians progging around in the stars and that infra red light, as to the American, and these kind of things, it's the end of the generation of vipers, which is the old serpent, or the old intellectual head of the old tree of knowledge and diplomacies that are up there curling their tail around the third part of the stars right here at the end time messing around with the bombs. Whereas, the Bible said, the very elements being on fire that they will melt with fervent heat and then all of a sudden the blast and the shaking and the earthquakes and the vibrations and the tremors and the stars are going to fall out of heaven. The moon is going to be moved out of its place and everything is going to be in a blaze. Everything is going to be shaken that can be shaken. Heaven shall be shaken and earth shall be shaken for the Bible said in Paul's teaching, God one time shook the earth, but then again He said, the next time I won't just shake the earth, as in the days of Moses when the mountain burned with fire but I will shake heaven and earth and I will shake everything that can be shaken. Which means He'll shake Brother Pike and He'll shake you and He'll shake every person. He'll shake the rich and the poor. He'll shake the olympic stars and He'll shake the movie stars. He'll shake everything that can be shaken, the great millionaires. He'll shake them. Everything that will give he'll shake them until they fall out of their orbit, but you and I are made to live forever. We are founded upon a rock and the earthquakes and the storms can't get us. And we're not founded on the shifting sands of theology and ideology, or worldly diplomacy, or the Einsteins, as to their theory, or theology, but we are founded upon the rock of His Word. The Bible said, And upon this rock I build My church and not even the gates of hell shall prevail against it. He walked through the flames of hell so that we would be the body of Christ Jesus, that the flames of hell could never prevail against us, that the flames of hell could never reach up and take us no matter what happens at death, or whatever you might call it. And the Bible said, Who is a rock but our God? Who is God but the Word? And upon this rock I found My church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So then, in seeing this we realize that this lovely Shekinah has come. This lovely Shekinah, which is the illuminated mind that Adam had when He was so superior to everything and had the strength and the great intelligence to name everything. I made the statement, Adam didn't need to go to college. He didn't have to have diplomacies. He named the animals. He named every species. The Bible said, And the spirit of God shall upon Him and make Him of a quick understanding. And He said to those that came out of Egypt, He said, And all of the land will be afraid of you because of your great understanding for God shall be with you. And then Adam, being so great and so mighty, naming all the species of the earth, it is still today that the great scientists of the earth are still searching and have not been able to properly name everything in the earth. But Adam did. Adam named it. See? This is the way that God does things. The world is beast and those people have to learn their ABCs and 1,2,3s. And like I said, you say to the dog roll over and set up and turn flips and so he does. And if you take that away from him then you know that he can't do those things. It's just what you instill within him. And the world is nothing but beast and they reflect what we do as sons of God. And the whole world is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. It's not waiting for the sons of God, for now, beloved, we are already the sons of God. But it's waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, as to this inner son of God which must be made manifest in this mortal body at the change of this carcass that is not in the image of God, but that is His to be changed into His glorious image by the nature that we receive by the Shekinah to make us bear the image of the heavenly. And Paul said, seeing that Christ was made in the image of God He thought it not robbery to be equal with God. He didn't try to make a reputation. He didn't try to do that. He didn't look for diplomacies to make a reputation, or money, or prestige. Being made in the image of God as Adam was, falling from that image and losing that nature, man is now but a beast. But we are bearing the image of the earthy, as to Adam, who was made out of the dust. Now, from the dust thou art, to the dust thou shalt return. But we shall also bear the image of the heavenly and be changed back to the Shekinah illuminated Christ that Adam was before he pulled away from the garden at the time when he was called through the genealogies the son of God. Well, anyway, we just kind of stagger and stumbled around here to say a few little things to you tonight because there is no real hunger, but at least we caught your attention enough and you listened real good. So we said a few little things and you can think these things over, as to the benefit of them, and they go on tape and other people get the benefit of them. And the little bits and pieces they can put together out yonder so that they will have something to eat. Let's stand together. While they are coming back to their music__ The Bible said examine yourself and see if you be in the faith. And the Bible said be sure that Christ Jesus is within you lest you be reprobates. And then as I've said before in enumerating a number of things He told you to do and said if you can perform these with your nature and your spirit it is a proof that you are the fore-ordained, or the predestinated, and if you do these things ye shall never fall. But if you cannot do these things then you will fall for the Bible said He'll shake everything that can be shaken even to the stars that shall fall from heaven. And right now that progging is here. The end of the church ages is here. The world is at an end now and the revelation is moving in. The same way He spoke it into existence and it came to be, He is speaking it out of existence from within His temple, as to whose temple ye are. And those that don't know and don't understand they won't see. The Bible said the wicked shall not understand but the wicked, the wicked shall be lost and they shall fall into darkness. Wandering stars that have no light. But the righteous shall understand. So no matter what kind of diplomacy you've got, no matter what you do, no matter who you are you will not understand. Einstein was ever learning, he never understood. The world of diplomacy with all of it's colleges and graduates will never understand. The ecclesia, as to the presidency and the senators and the governors, will not understand but the saints of God will. Thirty fold, sixty fold, hundred fold, the sons of God, they are going to marry the church. And, you know, now beloved are ye the sons of God, as to the inner spiritual man. For God is a spirit and His sons are spirits. And this body is the church, if it be the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular, as to His Bride. And so to the Lord Jesus Christ we are His Bride, members in particular, even as your wife is your body. And to God, Jesus along with these many members, are sons of God. And on the inside we are sons of God but we marry the church, which is the body. We come forth to marry the body. Someone would say, Now, that's the part I'm interested in, Brother Pike. I want to marry that body and I project myself and I want everybody to know I'm here. But it won't be that way. The way that they will marry the body, the first thing they will do will kill the body of death. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? The first thing that Christ did as THE son of God, the first fruit of them that slept, was take that body and kill that body and destroy that body. And then after that He brought forth, in the resurrection, that lovely body that He married, as to the head of the church. So then, we will marry the body, but it will be the resurrected body. Right now we're going through the transformating of the mind that we might die. As this great light comes the inner man increases, the outer man decreases and the land of Esau we're passing through it on the way to Canaan, and the Bible said pay your way. Don't bother with those people. Don't bother with their things, go right on through and go right on into Canaan. When they started into Canaan they passed through the land of Ammon and the land of Moab. And they came through this place and the Lord said, Don't bother these things. He said, These are children of Lot. I've given them this on this side of Jordan for an inheritance. You go right on through and you go right on over the Jordan. You go right on into Canaan. But there were two and a half tribes that didn't want to do that. They wanted to stay on that side and God gave them the chance to do it because when they came through this land they fought the children and they wouldn't let them through. And God just took their land away them and gave it to two and a half tribes that settled on that side. And it's a beautiful sight. Like I said, I stood there and looked over the Jordan into the valley. It's a beautiful sight. I can see why they wanted it after being out in the desert, or being out in the wilderness, all those years. But they had to go into Canaan to fight. And a lot of people are like that. Some of you Bethlehemites. You go right on, you know, and you go over the natural Jordan of the intellectual reasoning of your diplomacy and way of life to get in here with us and be religious and sometimes help. You carpenter a little bit, or you give a little bit, or you preach a little bit, or whatever you do, but your mind is back in the world on the other side of Jordan. Your inheritance is back there, your wealth is back there. Your desire is back there. Your family ties are back there and when you finish fighting to settle this wonderful land you go right back into the same thing. And you can do that at this time 'cause the worm can climb up. Through grace it's climbed up into the upper lintel and intellectually they've climbed up into the upper lintel. And grace as the blood on the Seat of Atonement has made a second heaven so that they can dwell there. And Lucifer living on the inside of a human body dwells in the second heaven and has formed a middle wall of partition, even as in the day of Daniel when Daniel prayed for twenty-one days and the angel up here came to answer that prayer and ran into second realm where the angels of night and darkness intercepted and caused such a warfare. Their strength wasn't adequate for the purpose and had to go back and get reinforcements to break through that intellectual veil where Satan is while he blackmails God to the extent he says, If you don't do it my way I'll kill your children. And because we're ignorant, as to the beginning of our life God can't do a thing so He has to give grace and Satan and the worm, or them that are worldly gets the benefit of this grace when God is angry with them everyday and says, I hate the wicked and I'll pursue them until they perish from off of the face of the earth. I'll turn all nations into hell that forget me, He said, for I am angry with the wicked everyday. Their offering is an abomination in my sight. Their prayers are an abomination in my sight. No matter how religious or Charismatic they are I don't listen to them, but nevertheless, here's grace because I've got children out there and I can't turn my wrath on them. I've got to have blood on the Seat of Atonement to take care of them until you come out from among the world and be a separate people. And then after awhile when I cut everything down I'll separate the tares from the wheat and burn the tares. So He's binding them into bundles now. Intellectual bundles, the colleges, schools, societies, olympics, of the ecclesia of today, of government, religious activities, whatever it might be, He's binding them into bundles. He's cutting them down now. The angels are coming to cut them down. And they're going to cut them down and they're going to throw them into the fire. But at the same time He's gathering His wheat into the garners. So tonight, as to whether or not you're a wheat, the....(Begin tape two, side one.)...the fore-ordained, the elect of God, it remains to be seen. Somebody would say, Well, how do I know, Brother Pike. How could I make my calling and election sure? By doing these things. What kind of things? Said, Bringing forth the fruits unto holiness and you'll have the end thereof, everlasting life. If you can't produce the holiness of God, as to long suffering and gentleness and patience and godliness and brotherly love and all these wonderful things that God spoke of then you don't have His spirit. You don't have the Holy Spirit. You don't have fruits unto holiness. You don't have everlasting life. So you're just in the rain, and water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink. Okay. Let's sing a little chorus together, Brother Taylor. The altars are open. If you'd like to come to the altar you're welcome to come. Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) Can you sing that? (Singing) Listen at this one, now. (Singing) Sing it with me. (Singing) Can you sing it again? (Singing) One more time. (Singing) So then, the Lord is calling to come and dine. Let's sing this little chorus together, Brother Taylor, that we sing so much. We had that just a little bit low, but let's sing this one. (Singing) Sing it with me, now. (Singing) Sing it like this now. (Singing.) Sing that with me. (Singing) One more time together. Lift your hands up and close your eyes. (Singing) Do you really want to praise Him? (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord