The Finishing Of The Mystery

(Singing) Sing it one more time. (Singing) Let's sing another little chorus. You know, that's the secret is walking with God, not being double minded, not changing, being the same yesterday, today and forever. The Bible tells us not to mess with them that are given to change and when someone starts in this way toward Christ and then they change, then they want to start again and then they change, they want to start again and then they change, the Bible said just withdraw from those people. Don't have any fellowship with them because you know that they're double-minded and the Bible said a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways. Let not that man think that he shall receive anything of God, but swear to your own hurt and change not. Make up your mind that you're not going to be given to change and that you are going to follow Christ. The only proof that Christ is in you is that you are the same yesterday, today and forever. The mind of Christ is always the same. He said, what I say to one I say to all. And this is what we have to do if we're going to follow the Lord Jesus. Let's sing the little chorus, I Love Him. Can we sing that? (Singing) Once again, now. (Singing) Sing it one more time, can you? (Singing) You can be seated. Every promise in the book is mine. Now, for many months we've been continually going in to revelation. God is the God of revelation. God is a revelation. God is a spirit and the revelation is not the revelation of Brother Pike, nor the revelation of St. John the divine, nor the revelation of Paul. It is the Revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave unto Him to show unto His servants the things which must come to pass. But it is said because it was given to St. John it is called the revelation of Saint John the divine. And because it was given to Paul it was called the revelation of Paul. And when it is given to you it is the revelation that belongs to you. And in as much as you are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular, then as he is so are you in Him to let this mind of revelation be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who being made in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God but didn't try to make within Himself a reputation, humbled Himself and in His humility his judgment was taken away. And in His humility He became so that He washed the feet like servants, giving us an example of humility that we might humble the flesh, that we might not have a resistance within the flesh to hinder the great moving of the holy tender, dove like spirit of the mighty holy Christ. So then, the way up to God is to put the flesh down for the outer man must decrease and the inner man must increase. And though the outer man dies daily yet the inner man is renewed day by day. Paul said, I die daily. And the secret of success with God is to realize that the body is an alien to the things of God and it is corruptible flesh and it is called the body of this death. And it is the image of iniquity and it is despised by God through the first birth. It came through the fallen one and that veil of flesh, as we ministered the other night concerning this, that veil of flesh has to be torn away from your inner spiritual man and that inner spiritual man must be translated into the wonderful spirit of Christ and then that outer man, dying by Calvary must be planted in a watery grave that you might drop off that body and then be resurrected in the likeness of the Lord Jesus. Having been planted in His likeness we're also raised together in His likeness having put on Christ so that it's not you living but Christ that liveth within you and that life that you then live inwardly that's spotless, that's sealed by the spirit of God keeps you and the evil one cannot touch you for darkness cannot get near light. And that means that because of that you are sealed on the inside until the day of the change, or the redemption of the body because the body is the purchased possession. Though the body itself is not an alien it is only by birth that it is an alien, or alienated from the life of Christ because of the infiltration. And Paul said, it is not I that doeth the wrong in the body, but he said, it is sin that dwelleth within me. And how to perform that which I have a will to do inside, he said, I cannot find. So only in the Lord Jesus Christ do we find our performance at the right hand of the Father. And God making Jesus Christ to be what we should be, therefore we are God's workmanship in the Lord Jesus Christ who has been raised up for our perfection, and we're perfected forever by what He did and by the lifting up of that body that is in perfection and sets waiting for us at the right hand of the heavenly Father that it might be presented to us at the end of our graduation when we receive our diplomacy of change as the head that come to the members of the bride. And in the moment in the twinkling of an eye, we who have the hope of that glory, shall be change into that glorious image for this heavenly treasure which is the manifold wisdom, the mind of Christ, is the now in your vessel as earthly vessels. And this heavenly treasure within earthen vessels is to be made manifest in your mortal genes to the extent that wisdom maketh your face to shine and it shall be as the sun shining within your strength. So, we see this wonderful thing that God has done for us and being in this age then we're constantly speaking of the revelation because the revelation is given unto you. It's given unto me and it's let whosoever will come. And though everyone will not receive the revelation yet they receive the benefits, in that they have the rain. Even as the tare they have the rain. The tare has the rain and the sunshine. So then, spiritually speaking, allegorically, revelationally speaking you can see that the tares also get the blessing and that's why that life continues the way it does today. If it was not for the blood of the Lord Jesus being on the Seat of Atonement as that righteous blood you would be consumed within a moment because all flesh has corrupted it's way before God because blood corrupts the flesh. Blood corrupts the flesh. This is why embalmers drain it out; take it out and replace it with a fluid that preserves the body because in a few days blood will corrupt. And so then the first blood is cursed and it corrupts the body. Therefore, you are corruptible flesh and the sentence of death is within you and you must die. Paul said the body must die because of the curse, because of the sentence of death. And the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die, which is the curse of death, or the sentence of death. Having the sentence of death within you that body is predestined to die. It is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment. But when we pass from death unto life and we die by Calvary, and when we're planted in a watery grave old things have passed away and no more remembrance of those former things. And then suddenly we're the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Having put on His body we are now flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone and God does not see us as corruptible people anymore, but rather as the beloved members of His body and He sees us as the temples of the might Holy Ghost. If the Holy Ghost be within you, the spirit of Christ, then you will produce the fruits of the spirit as I said this morning. And if you do not produce the fruits of the spirit then you don't have the Holy Ghost. It doesn't matter what kind of experience you have you don't have the Holy Ghost. Somebody would say, But, Brother Pike, if I can see visions, if I can do miracles then I have the Holy Ghost. No, that doesn't mean you have the Holy Ghost. That doesn't mean you have the Holy Ghost. Balaam could do that and he did not have the Holy Ghost. And men had worked miracles long before the Holy Ghost was ever given. Men worked miracles. They worked miracles and there will always be miracles, so you don't base it on miracles. And it's not by power or might; it's by the spirit of Christ. There is no record of new birth until the spirit of Christ came. In the Old Testament it is true that they did work miracles by the power of the Holy Ghost because the Holy Ghost was with them signifying the times of Christ's suffering and the coming of the Lord. But people have always down through the ages worked miracles by faith but did not have the gift of the Holy Ghost. And even though Zechariah prophesied and others, different ones  Saul prophesied, even so much that they thought he was among the prophets. He did not have the mighty gift of the Holy Ghost. And though David could run through a troop and leap over a wall He did not have the gift of the Holy Ghost. The gift of the Holy Ghost was not yet given until Christ died. And when Christ died for the remission of sin the fore-knowledge of God, which was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world that had kept people by foreknowledge and allowed them to do these things through faith, suddenly came to light and was made manifest at Calvary. And with this the rent veil, as to the open door in heaven and with that then came the mighty gift of the Holy Ghost. Today we have the gift of the Holy Ghost. We are suppose to be filled with the Spirit. At the upper coast of Ephesus when Paul re-baptized some of them, asking them if they'd been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Or, that is, he said, Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? And they said, We've not so much as heard whether there be a Holy Ghost or not. He said, Well, unto what baptism were you baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. And he said, John indeed baptized with water unto repentance, saying, believe on him that is to come. That is, believe on the name. And when they heard of this were baptized in the name, and salvation being in none other name, beginning at Jerusalem to the uttermost parts of the earth, they began to preach the infilling of the Spirit, or the born again experience by Christ's spirit which is called the Holy Ghost. So, it's so necessary that we have this wonderful spirit that we can have the fruits of the spirit. And if we have the fruits of the spirit then we have everlasting life. And if we don't have the fruits of the Spirit we can shout and jump and preach and holler. We can prophesy; we can do anything we want to, but if we don't have the Spirit we don't have the fruits of the Spirit. And if we don't have the fruits of the Spirit we don't have eternal life. The Bible said, Having the fruits of the Spirit and the end thereof, everlasting life. A lot of people are believers. A lot of people come to God. They believe. So does the devil believe. But, folks, it takes God's work which is the spirit within Christ that did those works. The works that were finished from the foundation of the world is the only way that your faith will do you any good, or benefit you in any way. One thing we have to remember is that the righteousness of God is by faith of Jesus Christ, not by your faith. I know the Bible says we're saved by faith and as far as we're concerned that means all we've got to go is believe but it doesn't matter if you believe. The Bible said if you believe so does the devils believe but that doesn't bring you salvation. When we're saved by faith we're saved by faith of Jesus Christ. And I repeat this again, as I did this morning: God has dealt to every man the measure of faith. And yet the Bible said all men have not faith. How then did God give every man the measure of faith and all men don't have faith? He has to be speaking of two different things there as to faith. So that means that every man has been dealt believing. He has the power to believe but he doesn't have the faith of Jesus Christ. That is, some folks doesn't have that. So he doesn't have salvation because he doesn't have the righteousness of God. And that's why I made the statement, it doesn't matter, thousands of people make a confession before evangelist, or whatever they do. It doesn't matter if they repent. This things come not through repentance, God's gifts are not through repentance; they're by fore-knowledge. We are God's elect by foreknowledge and we are God's fore-ordained that believe. We believe when we hear the Word because we believe in the Word. And the Bible said examine yourself and see if you be in the faith. That is, in the faith of the Word. Faith by the hearing of the Word, not in your believing because you can believe what you want to. You can believe a lie and be damned. You can believe that you are a Christian when you are not. You can believe you're on you way to heaven when you're not. You can believe you're healed when you're dying and you can go on and die. But when you have the faith of Jesus Christ you cannot have the faith of Jesus Christ and that fail you. His faith will never fail you. So then, that means that when we have the Spirit of God then we're sealed on the inside in our spirit until the day of the change, as to the redemption of this body, this body being the purchased possession, being purchased by His blood at Calvary and that's what makes us what we are. Therefore, if you have the spirit of God within you the deep calleth unto the deep, or the Spirit of God searcheth out the things of the deep. It searcheth out the deep things and it calls unto the deep. And He calls it the waterspout of God, whose waterspouts ye are, in that out of your innermost being flows the rivers of living water and the wells of salvation. So, this means that you must have God's spirit. To have God's spirit then you have opportunity to have revelation for the Bible said there's one spirit, many operations. And the Bible said pray that you will receive the spirit of revelation. And it doesn't mean that sinners can have the revelation. It doesn't mean that they have to pray to get the Holy Ghost. That's not what it's saying. It says that people who have the Holy Ghost should pray for the spirit of revelation, that they should have this operation in their lives. There are many operations, one spirit. And when we say the spirit of revelation people have thoughts to arise in their mind as to question how can this be when God is but one spirit. But the Bible speaks of the seven spirits of God. So then, when we come to these things we're made to understand that we don't understand a lot of times and because of that we misconstrue the meaning of Christ and we get off on a tangent, or we get off on a limb, so to speak, and find out that we're sawing the very limb off that we're try to stand on. So this means that with this wonderful revelation of God that he makes us to know and to understand the right way and the wrong way. And this great spirit of God He will guide us into all truths and all righteousness. He won't leave out one thing. He won't say that it's not necessary, you know, for this, or it's not necessary for that. If the Bible says it then He'll command us to do it. For when He comes, the spirit of truth, He is the spirit of the Word and He'll always witness of the Word and He'll never alter the Word. He'll never be evasive to the Word. He'll never tell anyone that they don't have to follow every jot and every tittle of the Word of the living God. So, it was the same way under the law. The law could not pass away until every jot and tittle of it was fulfilled, though we know the law has passed away and we know that it's folded up and it's laid away because one came by the name of Jesus that fulfilled every jot and tittle. And when He fulfilled every jot and tittle He folded it up. He laid it away and Paul said therefore we conclude that a man is justified by grace through faith of Jesus Christ. We don't have to worry anymore about fulfilling the law; Jesus did that for us. And because He did that for us then that means we're out from under the curse and everything is well with us. And that means that being born of God you cannot sin for the seed of God remaineth in you and you cannot sin because you are born of that seed. You are born again and you are dead to sin by the law and transgression of the law is sin. And therefore, you are dead to the law because where there is no law there's no transgression. And being dead to the law then that means that you cannot sin. And the Bible said the inner man keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. And God has made you perfect forever. Grieve not the great loving spirit of Christ which has sealed your spirit until the day of the change, as to the redemption of your body. Now, great is the mystery of godliness for God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit. He was seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, received up into glory. So, we know that Christ Jesus was God, made manifest in the flesh and we know that God is a spirit. And we know that even though God is a spirit there is a differentiating point between the spirit and the body. Because when Jesus resurrected from the dead they said, A spirit. He said, Feel of Me. A spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have, but in John He stated to the woman at the well that God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit. And yet we know that the Bible said the last man Adam was made a quickening spirit. And here He is, sown a natural, raised a spiritual. And here He is talking to them and they said, He is a spirit. But He said, A spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have. So again, we know that He was spirit. He was a spiritual body. He was in the image of man. He had flesh and bones just like man had. And the only difference between Him and you is that He did not have your blood. That was the difference. He was not corruptible flesh. I said this morning that all flesh was corruptible; all flesh had sinned. Satan had entered into the blood stream and through Adam all die. And by one man's sins it caused death through the blood stream, in that the life is in the blood. All down through the ages until Calvary and then when the conception came in Mary then there came a new blood cell and from that, that was the beginning of the creation of God. For the second man Adam was the man who was called the Son of God in the garden, not as to the body, but the illumination from which the body emanated, the body being made in the image that became the feminine part when Eve sinned and he listened to the feminine part. Thus he was showing the feminine part or showing mankind. And the masculine part, which was the spirit, was the invisible illumination that returned at Calvary and came into our heart, not to illuminate us as to the outer man but to rise as the Day Star dawning within us to redeem that body, or to purge his wife, to bring her forth. So with this we could spend hours and hours concerning the twins and concerning the purging and what He has done for us by the washing of the water of regeneration. And so we see then in this the revelation of the Son of God, the hidden revelation. Now, for the last twenty-five years since we've been here we've been ministering revelation; new revelation. Revelation that I've never heard in my life, never known anywhere. Never heard of anybody ever saying it traveling around the world. But the new revelation of the Son of God that whereas He said, and I'll do a new thing. And everyday my mercies are new. And God within the twenty-five years has been moving on and those that have been moving with Him have come into greater depths and greater heights than ever before. And as long as the world stands God will be moving on doing His new thing until He finishes His course. You know, one thing that we have to remember is this: that God gave an expression of Christ through Paul. The atonement of the blood, as to the body, had to go to the right hand of the Father, but He had to leave Christ in the earth. And Paul gave his life completely and was beat and stoned until there was no more Paul. And then Christ lived to become the head of the church to bring the Gentile in as a bride. That is, those that were among the Gentiles as a bride, whoever it was that God had chosen, and then caught up to the third heaven, having the revelation of the Son of God, being the capstone of the great building of that pyramid where he said Christ laid the foundation and he said, I am Christ. I have laid the foundation and let every man take heed how he build there upon. And God, willing to express Himself through Paul as the Christ in a seven dimensional unfolding projected Himself through the church age messengers all the way down through the church ages, of which we're coming to the close of right now. In this He thoroughly expressed Himself and He would not dare let the church be taken out or changed, that is in the body, until He completely expressed Himself as the revelation of the Son of God. And He projected John in the future so that John could get the revelation, as to what he saw of it in his day according to that that God wanted to be to the Jewish people. And brought this same John into the future, over where we're living right now and even past on, as to the tribulation period. And then being just about ninety-six AD, there he was right back at the beginning of the church ages and was a man with the revelation and Paul was a man with the revelation. And John, being as the church, was projected as a finished product down through the church ages to the open door that was open at Calvary when Peter opened it to the rent veil when he looked beyond the veil and said, Thou art the Christ. And Jesus went to Calvary and rent that veil in twain in that He had made in Himself twain, and the open door came, which we could say much of. Now, with this it's very obvious, as we've said in the past, that if I take a prism, if I smite the prism with light then there comes a refraction of the light and then I get a dimensional projection out of it of the spectrum, as to the beautiful colors of the rainbow in that all the colors are in light. If God be light and Jesus be the cornerstone, whereas, the prophet said, And the cornerstone shall come crying grace, grace, which Jesus did. And he said then that He was the head of the corner and the builders had rejected It. And then He was smitten, for the Bible said, We esteemed him smitten of God, and God is light. And if light smote that prism, or that capstone, or that cornerstone which came up into the pyramid, then the light refracted and when it did the rainbow went over all the way from the four hundred and eighty-three years over the church ages to the seven years that was left and brought the seven church age messengers as the spectrum so that we could get a full view of the covenant that God had made that would reach all the way over from Calvary to the end of the flood of the wrath of God that would be upon the Jews that passed through it that He might bring us into Canaan, or bring us into the millennium in the restoration. Or that is to say, the body, as to the Jews, for the body being adopted in because it is born of the first man Adam, the law has to come in and the Jews have to bring the law. And we're waiting now for the adoption. Waiting for the change that when this one that is born of the Jews, even the Lord Jesus, our works, our finished works, the finished product, that which God hath made us to be in Christ, we're waiting for Him to appear. (Begin tape one, side two.) In the moment in the twinkling of an eye the change comes and the body is just like that, as to everyone that hath this hope within him purifies himself to the change, even as he is pure. Purifying our hearts by faith that the great spirit of God might live within the temple. So then, we see this great wonderful thing, as to the spectrum of God and we realize that the birth takes nine instead of seven. And I say this again, though Paul, as Christ, established the seven church ages when we search it out we find that it was nine churches that the Bible records that Paul had to do with and that seven of them was taken to show the spectrum. But we find that at the beginning of the four hundred and eighty-three years, which was an earthly perspective, that there was a prophet like unto Moses. So we see Moses is one of the great candlesticks that was as to the right or left of the great throne, of those that were to set on the right or the left hand. And then we see as the seven is taken away from the four hundred and ninety years as that determined upon Daniel's people, which was the Jews, that the seven years brought in Elijah. Behold I send you Elijah the prophet before the great and notable day of the Lord comes. So then, we see that in that period there comes Elijah. So we see with this if Jesus made in Himself both, twain, Lord and Christ, or Moses and Elijah, or law and prophet, that He was rent in twain and obviously so that on the third day when He was perfected and when He stood upon the mountain, as to the transfiguration, He pushed right through the covering cherubs that was there that guarded that tree of life, and that there was a veil between mankind and the tree of life that said, Thou shalt not eat thereof because you have transgressed the law and I stand as the law before you as a veil and as a prophet saying all this must be fulfilled before you can ever get through these gates. And Jesus from the manger where we fell all the way to the wonderful opening of that gate as He rent that veil standing on the mountain of transfiguration, those gates open, those cherubs they divided and Jesus walked right back in as a finished product of the church, or the body, which is the church and went right back to the tree of life and restored us right back to the first man Adam. Sin by one man, death and righteousness by one man unto life, even Christ Jesus. So when the product was finished then He came down out of the presence of God, the light went out, God withdrew and He became our sin to make an end of our sin that we might be made the righteousness of the resurrected one to sit at the right hand of the Father and say, It is finished, until that time of His coming. So we are complete in Him. God hath made us to be complete in Him and we see that the veil has been rent in twain and Moses in the earthly perspective of the four hundred and eighty-three years and Elijah in the perspective of the seven earthly years and the seven back to the four eighty-three, making the full four hundred and ninety years that was determined upon Daniel's people, the Jews, to make an end of sin, as to do away with the image of iniquity in that in iniquity did my mother conceive me, the writer said, and the image is the image of the fallen one that came through Adam, which had to do with the flesh of the woman. And the Lord smote it through the travail of Calvary and brought forth life. And there the raven and the dove was released in the symbolics, as showing from that ark both went out because of grace and one returned. After ten days the dove returned back, as to the pentecostal thing is in the heart. He is in the heart of the ark of God today and is passing right on through the wrath of God by grace and by faith of God. Even through the devastations that will continue right on through the tribulation period. The raven, he did not return. He continued. Satan being protected by grace also, in that God allowed Judas to be among the twelve, knowing he was a devil from beginning. Going through this Satan has been at large, as the raven, feeding off of the corruption of the world and the old intellectuals have had their way as that tree of knowledge thing has taken roots and there is a great world under the auspices and control of the intellectual gates, as to the gates to hell. So then, we see that God has protected life, as the great Holy Spirit entered back into the ark after ten days, plucking that leaf from the tree of life, coming right back into the great ark and has continued on. And in this much, much revelation as concerning the Jews, the rejection and the woman in the wilderness as the child goes up to the right hand of the Father. So we can see that through the time of the spectrum God has expressed Himself in a seven dimensional projection but when we see these candlesticks we also see Moses and Elijah as these two great olive trees, or two great candlesticks, making nine as to the birth from point A to point B. And we see the dividing asunder of the seven from the four hundred and ninety leaving four hundred and eighty-three, bring in the heavenly perspective and doing away with the world, as to the first world passing away with water and the water covenant of the first covenant that He made with the Jews, as that of Abraham, to give them the natural inheritance of the earth and the vegetation and all of the fruits that He had given to Adam and Eve for meat. And so then we see when that passed away, the second covenant, as we preached on these the other night, the blood covenant came in and continued with the spilling of blood until it came to be a human being where the trouble started. And that ended the blood life and that ended corruption. And then God brought a quickening spirit which was the Son of God and a new blood life that went to be the quickening spirit that came from the spirit. Jesus said, I came from the heaven, or the spirit, and I go back to the spirit. He said, From the dust thou art and to the dust thou shalt return. Or that is to say, Adam, you were taken out of the dust. You were made out of the dust just like the beast were made out of the dust and you failed the test and you went back to the dust. But this that is coming as My membership, being the beginning of the creation of God and the first fruits of them that slept he said, these didn't come from the dust. I come from heaven, I go back to heaven. He said to you and I, you are not of the earth. You are in heaven. You were in My foreknowledge. You were in the loins of My Father even as Abraham of old, when he met Melchizedek over in the valley of Shaveh after the battle of the kings. And the Bible said, And Levy, while yet in his loins, paid tithes. So then we understand that this great wonderful thing that God has done for us has been, as we said, Jacob have I love and Esau have I hated. And the children not yet having been born, having done no good or evil that it might stand by the calling of God and the purpose of God and the election of God and not by works, He said, and the elders shall serve the younger. Now, with us we think of the birthright, as I've said before, as belonging to Esau. So we see the land of Esau and we see the intellectuals of Esau and the old tree of knowledge and we see that they have the birthright, because they have the power of constraint by law and they force us and they dominate us and the state rules over the church. But it's all in perversion and it's all wrong. When man rules over God it has to be the devil. When the intellectuals rule over the church it has to be the power of the old tree of knowledge and to be carnally minded is death. But, see? The church is suppose to be in power and the church in rule. This is why that Washington, being a devout man separated the two. He separated them because he saw what they had done, as a tyrant, in the days of old before they established America. And there is so much great mighty revelation in America coming in and what it had to do with. And so he separated it, as to the body from the spirit, to show the rent veil and to show that in the end time the church would continue to righteousness and rise up and take the kingdom. Right at the time that the state would corrupt themselves and become beast and become Sodomites the church would rise up and the new government would come in. That's why the Papacy now is concerned about talking to the congress and why God is allowing it to come to pass, because the church ages are at an end and the period of the carrying of the child is right now at the closing of the day. The birth is ready and the travail is ready for the Jews. That is, Calvary is to be made manifest. One thing we have to remember is the tribulation period to the Jews is the revelation of Jesus Christ to the saints of God. So, then when we remember that that seven years put back over the two thousand years to where it originally was is right there at Calvary. Four hundred and eighty-three years; four hundred and eighty-four, five, six, seven and right down the line with that seven years put to it to make the four hundred and ninety so it's not the great distance between it as we think. It is only there because we are caught up into heaven and that this is a heavenly episode in between this, as to the rent veil, that this open door in heaven might come and that we might look and see this great wonderful revelational thing of a spectrum of the seven dimensional projection of the expression of God to the church through the church age messenger, bring the mystery of God to a finish. And in this translating, transformating and transfiguring the church by divine transology. And seeing this then it makes us to know that this great gap that has been opened is like a matrix that the baby might be born. And the first thing is the head and at Calvary it went up through the spheres into the world of glory. And since then the physicians have carefully worked with the rest of the body, as the Bible said heal thyself, physician. And making reference to the sick as the sick needing a physician, that working with the church that the minister might bring forth the child, in that the Bible said I travailed until Christ be formed within you. Paul, speaking of this, as being the great revelator as to Christ to the spiritual Jew, bring in the kingdom age. In this we can see that God has done a miraculous thing in the great revelational mind of Christ and it makes us to realize that the days are at a close, as to the revelation and that the mysteries of God are being finished and people who go around talking about nothing happening and no revelation it's completely in darkness and ignorance and they don't know where they come from and they don't know where they're at and they don't know where they're going. They are completely ignorant. And Paul said, I would not have you ignorant. God is the great mighty God of bringing forth a new thing. God is the great mighty God of revelating Himself and God is the same yesterday, today and forever. And God is the same to a thousand generations. And God is perfecting the church and the ministry is for the perfecting of the faith of the Saints of God. And the way that He perfects the saints is by bringing the word of revelation that you might understand and in understanding then you believe. For the wicked shall not understand but ye shall understand. And the Bible said concerning the mystery, they cannot understand. The disciples said, Why do you speak to these people in parables seeing that they understand not what you say? For the Bible said without a parable spake He not unto the people. And He said, It is not given unto them to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God but to you it is given. And so it was that Paul came with this mystery saying, And the mystery that was hid in Christ is now made known even to the manifold wisdom of God in the heavenly places. And down through the church ages, as to the revealing at Calvary, now is come this great light that sprang up to them that sat in the regions of the shadow of death. The law folded up and laid away and the shadow passed away, and the curse passed away. And then all of a sudden these great candlesticks of the seven dimensional projecting of the Spirit of God, or the expression of God, then it comes forth as the colors within the light. The light unveiling itself and Jesus at the end of the church ages standing in the midst of these candlesticks and holding the stars within His hand to let us know that He was in the midst of the churches as the candlesticks and that was the church ages, and that He not only was there but He had within His hand those stars that indicated those messengers that were to come forth. So, even as the old folks used to say, A star represents somebody. When a star falls something is happening. But, nevertheless, when we see the wonderful thing that God has done then we know that the end of the world is here. And again I say, when we say the end of the world to people they are waiting for everything to go boom! But it doesn't have to do with that. It is only a state of mind. The world is a state of mind. The world never came to be until man ate of the tree of knowledge and then he dropped from heaven. He dropped from paradise. He went into intellectual darkness. That is he went into the world. He went into the world where Satan is the God of this world and Satan is the prince of the powers of the air. And Satan is the ruler of the darkness and God made him to be the ruler of education and intellect or that which is a constraint over the people that are in this world, for that is darkness. That is why Martin Luther said, And I fear that our institutions shall become the gates to hell. That's why they turn into fornicators and sodomites. That's why they praise themselves in all the olympics and that's why they go after the things of the world, is because they are like animals. And they do all of these things because they are blind. They are those like people would say, upside down. When they said, Paul has come in and turned everything upside down he was only trying to turn it right side up. People are like bats; they see upside down and then when it comes through their eyes it's turned right side up. So then, they are upside down in their thinking and they are in darkness and they cannot find their way. They are in intellectual darkness which is the carnality of death. And Satan is their ruler because He is the prince of darkness. And though you seem to have light, especially the molecular type, which is only symbolic. Yet there is only light, as to the religious understanding because Satan reflects that light in that He can change himself into an angel of light, as a reflection. He can appear unto you as an angle of light. Though he is a creature of darkness he is an angelic being of darkness. He is a spirit of darkness but because he has the power of the knowledge, as to reflect these great things then he builds himself a world. He builds himself these great mighty things that you see towering up from the earth. You see him with his diamonds and his pearls. You see him with his sport cars and his clothing. You see him in all of the drinking and the frolics and the dancing and the laughing and the parades and all of the frolics. Like today when we went up to a shopping center there for something we had to do, looked out and there was a carnival and they were laughing and hollering, and the rumble of those things that's where Satan is. He loves the things of the world. He savors the things that be of the flesh. He is the God of this world. He is the God of darkness, or intellectual ignorance. And so then he appears to you as an angel of light and the religious body of the world today has this because there is blood on the seat of mercy until the church comes out from among those creatures of darkness. When the last one comes out, when the gospel has gone into all the world for a witness then shall the end come. And He is calling to come out of the world, be a separate people, touch not the unclean things and I will receive you saith the Lord. But people are getting more and more into the darkness and groping around in the darkness and they are indulging more and more in the world as lovers of self more than lovers of God and they're going after the things of the world and the devastation of the diseases and all the horrible, hideous things that are befalling them are being poured out by God. The judgments are upon Satan and you're giving him a place of dwelling in your body and that means that you're going to be completely devastated, or annihilated. I say this again, God did not make hell for people. God does not send people to hell. God has never had a desire to send anybody to hell. God is love twenty-four hours around the clock. God loves all the time. It's not God's will that any should perish. God said not even the wicked. It is My will that they repent and find everlasting life. So He doesn't send anybody to hell. But He does tell you that I created this for the devil and His angels in the time of My anger because of their interference with what I was trying to do, and that they did leave their first estate. I gave them an estate but they weren't satisfied. They wanted to intermingle with men and intermingle with women through spirits of lust and all these kind of things. And they wanted to get into things that they had no right to get into. And through My anger I have created hell for them, as to a power of consummation. And now because you allow them to live on the inside of you then He said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan. Or that is, Judas, thou art a devil from the beginning. So then, whatever you allow to be in you, as to your state of mind  I will feed you the fruits of your thoughts and whatever you eat that's what scientists say that you are. So then, as a man thinketh in his heart so he is. And if you become a devil then it's because you have rejected the mind of Christ. If you become Christ as the body of Lord Jesus it is because you have rejected the devil. And so then, Satan being the prince of the powers of darkness has complete control, as to the auspices of this world, and the world and all therein is the pride of life and the lust of the flesh and shall pass away but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. And this world is but a shadow, a fore-runner of the great wonderful God who is life. and God who is love desireth that you be free and not go to hell. He does not send you to hell but if you are willing to by-pass the preacher, to by-pass the word and jump head long into hell, or to oppose God by letting devils live in you, you are an accessory after the fact. So then, that means that you will go to hell. If you give your body to God's enemy and oppose God in your mind when He told you not to do it He will speak to you as the same yesterday, today and forever. When He said to them  He said, Ye are a generation of vipers. I warned you not to do this and you're doing the same thing that I warned the others not to do and you have stood by and seen the judgment upon others that did this and now you are doing it; you are a generation of snakes. How can you escape the damnation of hell? So then, we see the severeness of this when we do those things. I said this morning that was quite a statement because the Lord Jesus standing there knew that He, Himself, was going into the flames of hell. For the Bible said He suffered not His Holy One to see corruption, as to the body, nor did He suffer His soul to remain in hell when He paid the price that we would have paid for sin. And He knew that He was going into hell to keep them out of hell and then He stood there and watched them doing the evil wretched thing that they were doing and warned them not to do, because of the judgment, and knowing that He was going to go through that suffering for them it angered Him so (The Bible said He was anger because of the hardness of their heart.) and said, You are a generation of devils. You are a generation of vipers. He said, You won't listen to anybody. You can't escape the damnation of hell the way that you're doing. Folks, I'm here to today to tell you the same thing, as to remind you that many of you that hear these messages, many of you that will receive this through books, or through the film that we have, or radio, whatever it might be, the printed page, you are going to hell. You are a generation of vipers. You're not going to listen to anybody. You've got your own ideas about what God is doing, what God hath done, what God is going to do and you're vainly puffed up by your fleshly mind thinking that you know something that you don't know and you're walking in darkness and all you're doing is confusing people. But let me tell you something. There is a reality in serving God. There is a great wonderful understanding in serving God. There is a revelation of the Son of God, a present day truth for them that will believe God and there is peace. There is peace. He that keepeth his mind stayed upon Christ Jesus shall have perfect peace and all the paths of God are peace. And there is salvation. There is peace. There are Gods in the earth. Ye are the very bone and flesh of God Himself. Ye are the seed that came from His loins. As a man's seed comes from his loins to the vagina of that which is his companion, as to reproduce, that seed has been with him since he was a child. That is part of him. That is his blood. That is his inspiration. That is him, and you coming from God, you've been with God through the eternities. Always you were in the loins of God. You have never been away from God and now the time has come of the presentation of the Sons of God, and Paul said, even in the gospel, I have begotten you in the gospel and you are the very bone and flesh of the Son of God for he said, This day have I begotten myself a son. And He is the first fruits of Him that slept and ye are complete in Him. Ye are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Ye are the very seed of God that remaineth within you and you cannot sin because you are part of God. Well, we could go on and go on and say many things about the wonderful revelation of God. This is just a few things that we're saying tonight in the way of exhortation because I know in the evening time that you are tired and I realize that your minds are weighted down to the day and your strength is gone. Whether you work or don't work you are strength is still gone because you're weary and tired over in the evening time. So in the morning we try to get you when you're fresh and try to expound as much as we can. In the evening we have to fight and struggle because minds are just drifting here and there and there is a resistance. The carnal mind is contrary to the spiritual mind of God and there is a continual resistance and a broken connection and you are not in unity like in the day of Pentecost when they all got in one mind, even the mind of Christ, and one accord to do the will of God that the Spirit should come, as the way it comes, and floods the soul and it overflows. You know, I was praying for a little girl called Tabitha. It reminded me of Peter and the resurrection. But I was praying for her over the telephone and she was all broken up. Her little heart was just broken. She was just broken to pieces and a spirit that is broken is of great value in the sight of God and when I went to pray for her the great Spirit of God just poured out of my soul. I mean there was no resistance. It wasn't just a little touch that I felt, or you know, a go and a come like a current that, you know, an alternated current; it just poured out. Just poured out. And her heart was just broken, lifting up, and I said to her, I said, Tabitha, you know you feel the mighty power of God right now. She said, I do. And she was just bawling, just broke up because it was just pouring into her soul. But, you know, we miss a lot of wonderful blessings because we're so hard hearted. We're so stiff-necked. We're so uncircumcised in heart. And we're in such a condition that we have molded our mind to a resistance against God. And it causes us to fail to get the wonderful, tender touch of that dove as He comes hovering down over us. And as the voice of the Lord tries to woo and calls us. As the turtle dove calls you don't answer back like the mate should answer back and therefore you get robbed of the wonderful things of God and the wonderful inspiration that will cause you to be able to operate in the gifts, or operate in the mind of God and bring forth a real light for the world to see. And because of that you come short of your reward in God. Well, it's good to talk with you for a few minutes. I'm going to ask them to come back to the musical instruments and let you go and not hold you too long tonight. These things are heavenly treasures. The mind of Christ is a heavenly treasure and it is a wonderful treasure. It is so great and so mighty. Everything is going out. All of the lights are going out. There is nothing left anymore except the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Someone would say, What makes you think that, Brother Pike? Because that's the way it is. See? In that day He alone shall be exalted. And He is the only one that has the Revelation of Jesus Christ and He gave it to John. He gave it to Paul. He gave it to me and He's given it to some of you that hear my voice. So, the Revelation is the coming of the Lord. I want to say again: What is this to you? Jesus said. It is the coming of the Lord. It is the coming of the Lord. That's why John was projected over into the revelation of the Son of God. It was the coming of the Lord. That's why Paul was called Christ and caught up to the third heaven. He was Christ. It was the coming of the Lord. And the Lord being in our midst all these years through the seven dimensional projection of that of the churches that Paul established, the expression of God, as to the church age messengers, which was nothing less than Christ severally dividing Himself as the seven spirits, or the projection of the church age messengers. This is why that we bring it out a lot of times in preaching on the seals and preaching concerning the book and the seven seals that were on the backside. Don't forget. It was on the backside and concerning the seven seals and what it had to do with, as concerning these church age messengers, and why that no one could open this book but that Lamb. So then, a door is open in heaven. When was it opened? It was opened when Peter got the key and he looked beyond the veil and the veil was rent in two, or twain, and Jesus took His people back into the garden and took them to the hidden manna. They that overcome I will give them to eat of the hidden manna, which is the Revelation of the Son of God. This wonderful hidden manna. This is not written in the Bible. It is in the Bible because it is in the Word and ye are the Word. That's why the Lord said to John, the thunders, the utterance, see that you write it not. Why? Because it was already written within the heart of John because John received it and we're an epistle that is known and read of all men. We're the true Bible. And so then God said, I'll take out the heart of stone, as to the law, the letter of death as given by Moses and I'll place within you a heart of flesh, which is My own heart, and make you My own flesh and my blood. And I'll write My laws upon the table of your heart and I'll constrain you through the love of God that you walk in My ways. So it's very evident that He preserved those thunders strictly for you that they might not be written so that Satan could not contest it as he did when he stood before Jesus and said, It is written. The Lord didn't let him write it as John so the devil could not say, It is written. Because He wrote it in the heart of John and said, Seal it up. This is something strictly, Brethren, for the church and God's interwoven thing of within your heart that others will not be able to get a hold of. So how beautiful it is. All the rest of it is a resistance that He has allowed even the devil to know so there can be a resistance. Because in the resistance it's like when Pharoah resisted Moses it was God's way of manifesting the light. It takes resistance. There is a resistance in electricity. There is a resistance. There has to be. And with God there has to be a resistance because it takes the darkness to bring forth the light and God created the darkness. I say this a lot of times in our little expose' and preaching: When the Bible speaks of God coming forth and darkness was upon the face of the deep it wasn't because the darkness was there without the act of God. God had to create that darkness before the darkness was there. And He created the darkness so He could...(Begin tape two, side one.) come forth. There would have been no coming forth of God. Coming forth there indicates He became existent. And light cannot become existent unless there is darkness because light cannot be seen. Even molecular light. Science will tell you that it can't been seen and no man has ever seen God at anytime. Therefore this darkness had to be created, as to the intellectual tree of knowledge, and the ruler, as the god of darkness had to be put over the power of intellect, as to that carnal mind, that through the shadowy allegorics of that and types, as we call it, that Christ might reveal Himself as this hidden manna of that revelated light. Understanding is light, ignorance is darkness and the Bible said ye shall never see light for ye are blinded by the ignorance that is within you. And I would not have you ignorant. So then, God creating the darkness to form light so the world became existent. Fish became existent. Birds became existent, in that God is life and all things emanate through the Lord Jesus or emanate from the light. Then the light took on form, as to His desire, and all things were created by Him and for Him and for His pleasure. And with Him was not anything made that was made. So then, coming through Him as the Word, or the thought, as we bring in in our preachings and break it down, as to the quickening, as to the recording of the nerves, and those things on some tapes, then it's very obvious the way that He got to us through conveying Himself to us through those thoughts of darkness, in that the Bible said God veils Himself within the shadow, or the darkness. Thus He rent the veil and brought the light. He done away with the darkness and you that are children of light, you're seeing that. Like a negative that's all that you are from your first birth. Like a negative film. That negative film is recorded and must record before there can ever be anything else. And when the negative is finished then all of a sudden they that have light, it's like putting that film in a projector and turning on the light, or sparking up the little fire. I used to work around a projector, a movie projector. And when that light come on that light goes through the negative. And when it goes through the negative out goes the beam and then upon the screen comes forth a world that was not. And all of a sudden there is a world. And it wasn't there before. And it's light because it went through the negative. And just as quick as the light goes out the world is gone. It's not there. You are back in the darkness and the negative is without any power of effect. So then, this is the way it is. Many of you have no light on the inside, as to the Spirit. Therefore your negative is nothing but an intellectual brilliance that will take you into the fire and be burned. But this great light is a spiritual thing that projects itself on the screen of understand of mankind that can never pass away. When the light cuts off after you've seen the movie it's still there. You've still go it. All of the invisible things of God are understood clearly by the things which do appear, even from the creation of the world, even the Godhead, so that we're without excuse. Are you growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord, or have you dwarfed yourself to the extent that you feel that you've already grown and that you already have it. Are you going on to anything new? God said, I'll do a new thing. And are you going on to grow in the grace of God and the knowledge of God? Or are you just seeking to grow in the grace of God and feel that you don't need any growth in the knowledge. We are growing in the knowledge of God to the full measure of the full stature of the full reward. How beautiful it is to go on with God and to realize that God is the everlasting, ever increasing, the ever unveiling wonderful light of thrills and excitement of heavenly treasure that we have in these earthen vessels. Well, let's sing a little chorus together. The altars are always open as we sing these little choruses. And as I said, I know that you're tired. I understand that and I don't expect you to be all that exuberant. Jesus rejoiced in spirit and I know that you rejoice, some of you rejoice in spirit because you are always hungering and thirsting. David said, My heart panteth after Thee, O God, as the hart does the water brook. And my heart pants after God. The thrill of my life is every day the beautiful unveiling of the revelational things of God as the light shines in my heart. So I know that you get a thrill in heart and I understand that because I do myself and we all grow together. (Singing) Sing that again with me. (Singing) You know, it's not very far. We sing this little chorus because we're getting closer to home and we sing this little chorus, it sounds like home to me. Let's sing that little chorus. (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) Sing it one more time. (Singing) How wonderful it is to be a Christian, to know that the Lord loves us and that He is walking with us and keeping us. You know, I think about this little chorus we sing so often and how true it is when the writer said, The things that I have and hold dear to my heart, their not mine. They're just borrowed; they're not mine at all. God only gave them to me to use them. You know, just to see what I would do with them. And yet, though God just gave them to us to use, to be a steward over, somehow we get selfish. We get to where we're real possessive and we don't want to divide them. We don't want to share them. We don't want to forsake them. We just want them for ourselves. Greedy, haughty, contrary, in the powers of darkness, walking always in the vanity of our minds as all the world does. And it is vanity. The writer said it's vanity, vanity and vexation of the spirit. All is vanity and all will pass away. So when we realize those kind of things it makes us to know that we're not like the early church when the early church had all things common and not anybody said anything was their own, but they severely divided it one with another that no one had need. And they all labored together. They did not try to leach one off of another and put the load on one that one should carry and another should not carry his load. Whereas, the Bible said not that one should be burdened and another one be at ease, but rather your abundance should supply the lack of others. And as it is written, he that gathered much had nothing left over and he that gathered little had no lack so that our abundance might help to supply the lack of those that don't have as much, or that is not as fortunate. He that is wasteful is brother to a sluggard. But, folks, when we share and share alike, having all things common and grow up together, that was the purpose of Little Bethlehem and that is what we're still trying to do, not forgetting our vision. Sometimes, it's like I told my wife, I said, Betty, we should never forget that there are people in the world that have to really strive just to have a few dollars to get gasoline to put in their car. They have to really strive just to get a little money to have bread and to pay their bills. I know some people are lazy and don't work and they have all kind of problems because they just won't work over a day or two a week. Sometimes won't work that much. But there are people that do struggle and people don't pay them hardly anything. And I said, And don't forget those days when you and I were out in the world and we had to struggle just to get a little bread, just a dollar or two meant so much to us. I said, Others are like that, Betty, and they don't understand, though the blessings of the Lord maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. He supplieth all of our needs according to His riches in glory, but He gives us riches and gives us blessings that we might help others. Even the spiritual things that He gives us, He doesn't give those to us so that we can lord over God's heritage, but rather be an example. Not be vainly puffed up with our fleshly mind, as to thinking we know something we don't know something as we ought to know. And that is that we're suppose to be sharing and suppose to be an example to the flock and suppose to humble our heart and that we're suppose to share what we have with people around the world, to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. For the Bible said let the strong bear the infirmities of the weak. And if it be the weaker brother then bear his infirmities. Carry him on the wing and help him because love is manifested in deed and without deed there is no love, for love is manifested in deed. Charitable love; this is what we need, folks. So as we sing these little chorus together lets just lift our hands, close our eyes. I want to say again you're very special to me and you're very special to God. You're not just another people. Solomon said, Who can speak to so great a people, even this people that are God's. Ye are very bone and flesh of God. To think the wrong thing of you, as one individual means that I've offended God and He said it's better that a millstone be tied about your neck and ye drown in the depths of the sea than to think wrong toward one of My little ones. That is, to offend them and cause them problems. When you think that way you're thinking of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. How evil and corrupt can your mind be to charge God with folly when nobody can lay anything to the charge of God's elect, that we're bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And if we're not, then are ye fools because you have come to listen to that which is not true and that which is false. You have come to hear that which is not right. So then, it is not the minister that is a fool. It is you that is a fool to come to fellowship those that are not right and to listen to somebody that's not right. But ye that love the Lord, and ye that are wise people and ye that believe in the Word of God and ye that know that this is true and this is the real brotherhood of Christ, then God bless you for the Bible said whoever you bless, as a minister, shall be blessed. If you do wrong then fear for the minister of God is the revenger of God. He beareth not the sword in vain. He is set there to execute judgment upon them that do evil so fear because he does not bear that sword in vain. But if you want to do right and you want the blessings of God let him think the right thoughts toward you. So don't do anything in your thoughts that he perceives, for he will perceive. Jesus perceived their thoughts in His spirit. And don't do anything that he will perceive your thoughts because it will bring a curse upon you. There's nothing he can do about it. He will bring the curse upon you because Christ inside of him will perceive that carnal mind that is enmity with God that hinders the walk of God and the things of God through the corruptive thoughts that you are thinking and God will feed you the fruits of your thoughts. Therefore, if anything have any virtue in them think on these. If any thing be lovely think on these. And before you come into the house of God make adjustments as to your attitude through life and make adjustments as to your thoughts, because whatever you feed off of that's what you are. As a man thinketh in his heart so he is and you want to think virtuous thoughts of Christ toward your fellow man, toward the minister and toward that which is godly so that you can be blessed and not be cursed of him. You say, Brother Pike, do you feel resistance? Yes, I feel resistance? Numbers of times from numbers of people I feel resistance. I say very little about it but it is because you are carnal and the carnal mind is enmity to God and you're not spiritually minded. And Paul said, I would that you were spiritual so that I could speak unto you as unto spirituals. Somebody said, But, Brother Pike, I hear every word you say. I record it because I'm quick to thought and I've got it. But you're lying; you didn't get it. You only reflect it with your negative mind and you're still just as corrupt as you ever were. You didn't receive anything and there is no light in you and you're blinded by the ignorance within you. But the little flock has received the kingdom. And the little flock has received the light and you don't have any light in you. And you can't even light up. As quick as the blood comes off of the mercy seat your reflecting of this light it will be gone and you'll find out that you are a creature of darkness and that there is no light in you. And God said because your light doesn't light up I'll move your candlestick. And the Bible said the candlestick is the spirit of man, that is the candlestick of the Lord searching out the inward parts. And when that don't light up with the revelational torch of God then that means you are a creature of darkness and all you are doing is illuminating as you reflect this wonderful light from the children of God. And as soon as the church goes out you're going away into pure darkness and going to find out that you don't have nothing. You are just a miserable thing that is carnal minded and abiding in death and have never been born again. Never been born again. Did you know that I wouldn't feel any resistance from you if you were born again? I wouldn't feel it. But I do fee it from some of you. Why? Because you've never been born again. That's what it is. Let's sing that little chorus, Brother Taylor. Born again. (Singing) Can you sing it with me? (Singing) Can you sing it one more time? (Singing) Just one more time. (Singing) One more time together. (Singing) We're going to sing it one more time together, lift your hands and close your eyes. (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord